LALiji Alexinlijibuilds.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 13 min readDocling Drops Pages and Footnotes Without a Word. Three Numbers Catch It.When Docling loses part of a document, nothing tells you. No exception, no warning, no empty result. The parse finishes, the tree looks complete, the vector store fills up, and a clinician's question 01A
LALiji Alexinlijibuilds.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 14 min readI Tried Six Ways to Get Heading Levels Out of a PDF. Docling Already Had One.Docling's PDF pipeline returns every heading at level 1 unless you switch on the stage that ranks them. I spent a day finding that stage and tried five other things first. This is the comparison, with00
LALiji Alexinlijibuilds.hashnode.dev·4d ago · 15 min readLayout-Aware and Hierarchical Chunking Are Stages, Not StrategiesEvery chunking guide lists the strategies side by side: fixed size, semantic, hierarchical, layout-aware. Pick one. The guides define layout-aware as "respect the visual structure of the page" and hie01A
LALiji Alexinlijibuilds.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 12 min readDocling Gives Every PDF Heading Level 1. One Flag Fixes It.Docling reads PDFs well, and it took me a day to notice the one thing it was not doing. Every heading it found came back at the same level. My RAG chunks lost their context, retrieval still looked fin00
LALiji Alexinlijibuilds.hashnode.dev·Jun 12 · 7 min readSolving the Memory ProblemClaude Code already has memory. That is not the issue. The issue is that real product work rarely stays inside one neat repository. A feature may start in repo1, spill into repo2, touch an API contrac00
