The Stack
How to Build a Document Ingestion Pipeline with Docling in 2026: Tables, Layout, and Code You Can Ship
Convert PDFs and DOCX to clean, chunked, table-aware text for RAG with Docling's real API — install to HybridChunker in one sitting.
5 min
The Wire
DeepSeek-OCR: Storing Text as Pixels to Compress Long Context
DeepSeek's October paper shows vision tokens can carry roughly 10x the text of text tokens at ~97% fidelity — which quietly reframes long context as a compression problem, not a capacity one.
5 min
The Stack
Document OCR for RAG: olmOCR vs Marker vs MinerU vs Mistral OCR
A new wave of vision-model OCR turns PDFs into clean Markdown. For RAG the leaderboard everyone quotes measures the wrong thing — and is published by the people who make the tools.
4 min
The Stack
Docling vs Unstructured vs LlamaParse: Parsing Documents for RAG in 2026
The fight you think you're having — open pipeline vs hosted LLM parser — ended last year. A 1.2B model on your own GPU now wins the part that actually matters.
5 min