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Unlocking Insights From Multimodal PDFs Using OpenSearch and Vision-Language Models

Talkat AI_dev Europe 2025 · on Friday, 2025-08-29· at 11:10· G105 (Level 1)· [web-platform, machine-learning]
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Shows two concrete pipelines: one converts PDF tables/images into text (CSV, captions) and stores Titan embeddings via OpenSearch ingest pipelines; the other indexes page images with multi-vector VLMs like ColPali late interaction and rescoring. Demo indexes 7,000+ pages, returns exact table-derived answers (London highest price) and exposes token→patch attributions. Claims pooling to 3 vectors keeps 99.7% retrieval quality, offers an ML connector to SageMaker and an open Hugging Face demo; RFC for native late‑interaction support is filed.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:27Retrieval Augmented Generation in OpenSearch
  3. 3:56Multimodal PDF challenges
  4. 7:30Grounding multimodality into text
  5. 12:51Vision language models for retrieval
  6. 21:58Multi-vector retrieval best practices
  7. 26:02Choosing the right approach
  8. 27:47Q&A
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