בניית שכבת הקונטקסט הדוקומנטארי לאג'נטים — ג'רי ליו, LlamaIndex

תקציר מקורי באנגליתA PDF is designed for printing, so its text is glyphs with coordinates and its tables are line segments with characters at cell positions. Reading order for a multicolumn page is not stored anywhere. That, Jerry Liu argues, is why an agent handed a raw file cannot make sense of it, and why document OCR is still unsolved after twenty years. His larger frame is that RAG in 2026 decomposes into an agent harness plus a context layer. Retrieval complexity has moved into the agent, which now reasons about the right search term instead of hacking around top k retrieval; context has moved up the stack toward MCP servers and skills; and programs are increasingly written in English. For LlamaIndex, what remains is the ten trillion plus pages locked in PDFs, PowerPoints, Word documents, and spreadshe