Convert a research paper PDF to Markdown and RAG chunks
Turns an arXiv PDF (Attention Is All You Need) into clean Markdown plus heading-aware chunks of about 512 tokens, ready for a vector database. Each chunk keeps its heading path and page for citations. Paste any PDF, DOCX or PPTX URL instead.
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