---
title: "RAG & Pipelines"
description: "RAG & Pipelines is a blog category about preparing documents for retrieval: Markdown headings as chunk boundaries, tables that stay intact, and storing converted Markdown instead of re-parsing a PDF on every query."
url: https://markitdown.ai/blog/category/rag
updated: 2026-06-12
source: markitdown.ai
---

# RAG & Pipelines

> RAG & Pipelines is a blog category about preparing documents for retrieval: Markdown headings as chunk boundaries, tables that stay intact, and storing converted Markdown instead of re-parsing a PDF on every query.

## Posts

- [A practical checklist for preparing documents for RAG](https://markitdown.ai/blog/preparing-documents-for-rag) — 2026-06-09 — Retrieval quality is decided long before the vector database. This is a pre-processing checklist for turning messy source documents into clean, chunk-ready text.

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