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How I built an AI RAG system to convert PDF to Q&As

DEV.to AIΒ·April 23, 2026

This article details the five engineering stages of building an AI RAG system named LongTermMemory, which transforms PDFs into Q&As. It covers the full document processing pipeline, from text extraction and semantic chunking to using a vector database and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), powered by Laravel and FastAPI services.

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