The Anatomy of Data Ingestion

Why traditional OCR pipelines fail to capture structure

Traditional OCR Pipeline
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Convert to Text
"[Chart_Image]
Rev25 | | Tax.2
14.2% Growth
Col1 Col2
$50 $22"
Layout Mangled

Table context destroyed. Charts ignored.

Modality-Native Ingestion (ColPali)
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Embed Image Patches
Spatial Layout Preserved

Visual structure is directly encoded as vectors.