Documents
What is document Q&A?
Document Q&A answers questions from stored documents using retrieved passages, not a model that only saw the file once in its context window.
Updated · Part of What is PDF RAG?
How it works
- Retrieve passages for the question.
- Pass those passages and the question to the model.
- Keep the passage rows so the answer can be checked.
What it is not
It is not a chatbot with no corpus, and it is not keyword find-in-page.
document Q&A: this, and the thing it is confused with
| This | Not this | |
|---|---|---|
| Corpus | Stored documents | Whatever fits in one prompt |
| Grounding | Retrieved passages | The model’s memory |
| Check | Open the passage | Trust the paragraph |
Where Pixeltable fits
Pixeltable retrieves from the passage view and can store the answer as another column or return it from a query.
Questions
- How does document Q&A work?
- Retrieve passages for the question. Pass those passages and the question to the model. Keep the passage rows so the answer can be checked.
- What is document Q&A often confused with?
- It is not a chatbot with no corpus, and it is not keyword find-in-page.