The Open WebUI RAG Conundrum: Chunks vs. Full Documents
On Reddit, and elsewhere, a somewhat “hot” topic is using OWUI to manage a knowledge base / files and take advantage of OWUI’s built-in RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) functionalities. The thing is, sometimes, you’re not trying to retrieve snippets for context; you’re aiming for summarization, translation, file comparison, or brainstorming. I often see people struggling with system prompts or RAG prompts to get an LLM do process documents in ways that RAG simply doesn’t support. You can’t “chat to your PDF” and ask, “Take the grand totals section from my Excel file and re-write the summary in the financial report to reflect those numbers.” RAG isn’t built for this. It’s built to merely return chunks of text to the Agent that are hopefully semantically similar to the user’s request.
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