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Loading PDF files for RAG

To begin implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), you'll first need to load the documents that the model will access. These documents can come from a variety of sources, and LangChain supports document loaders for many of them.

In this exercise, you'll use a document loader to load a PDF document containing the paper, Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks by Lewis et al. (2021). This file is available for you as 'rag_paper.pdf'.

Note: pypdf, a dependency for loading PDF documents in LangChain, has already been installed for you.

This exercise is part of the course

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with LangChain

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Exercise instructions

  • Import the appropriate class for loading PDF documents in LangChain.
  • Create a document loader for the 'rag_paper.pdf' document.
  • Load the document into memory to view the contents of the first document, or page.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import library
from langchain_community.document_loaders import ____

# Create a document loader for rag_paper.pdf
loader = ____

# Load the document
data = ____
print(data[0])
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