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RAG system that skips HTML parsing entirely!

RAG system that skips HTML parsing entirely! PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that renders documents as…

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RAG system that skips HTML parsing entirely! PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that renders documents as screenshots instead of parsing them into text. Most RAG pipelines start by converting HTML to text. Tables flatten into unstructured rows. Charts disappear. Layout context is gone before the LLM ever sees it. The paper measured this directly: HTML-to-text conversion accounts for 36.6% of retrieval failures on SimpleQA. PixelRAG skips that step entirely. It renders pages as screenshot tiles using Playwright, embeds those tiles with a fine-tuned Qwen3-VL-Embedding model, buil

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