The Data Pack: When Markdown Is Not Enough - RipPDF

• Route: `/blog/what-is-a-data-pack`
• URL: https://rippdf.com/blog/what-is-a-data-pack
• Source file: `src/pages/blog/DataPack.jsx`

Page Summary

Markdown is content, but production ingestion is a contract. Learn the five failure modes of markdown-only ingestion and what a real Data Pack includes.

Key Headings

• H1: The Data Pack: When Markdown Is Not Enough
• H2: Executive takeaway
• H2: Symptoms checklist: markdown-only ingestion is already breaking
• H2: The 5 failure modes of markdown-only ingestion
• H3: 1) Duplicate chunks on re-ingestion
• H3: 2) Boilerplate embeddings poison retrieval
• H3: 3) Chunk boundaries drift and the index rots
• H3: 4) Citations break because provenance is missing
• H3: 5) Figures and tables vanish from meaning
• H2: Mini example: when a table becomes text soup
• H2: What is inside a RipPDF Data Pack
• H2: Why Data Packs matter in production
• H3: Higher retrieval quality
• H3: Lower noise and lower cost
• H3: Operational ingestion
• H3: Defensible provenance
• H2: Risk by industry when markdown is the only artifact
• H3: Legal

Canonical References

• https://rippdf.com/ai/blog.md