Parse, Normalize, Extract, and Store PDF Content for RAG in Pinecone
Parse, Normalize, Extract, and Store PDF Content for RAG in Pinecone This workflow automates a full RAG pipeline for structured documents (like insurance policies). What it does Watches a Google Drive folder for new PDFs Uploads to LlamaIndex Cloud for parsing → returns clean Markdown Normalizes text (removes headers, footers, page numbers, formatting artifacts) Splits text into chunks (~1200 chars with 150 overlap) Generates embeddings with OpenAI Stores vectors in Pinecone with metadata Connects a Chat Agent that retrieves answers from Pinecone Who’s it for Developers building chatbots or Q&A systems for structured docs Teams working with insurance, compliance, or legal PDFs Anyone who needs to normalize & store documents for semantic search Requirements Google Drive connected (for source PDFs) LlamaIndex Cloud account (parsing API key) Pinecone account (vector DB) OpenAI account (LLM and embeddings) How to use and customize Update the folder name in google drive trigger node. Place a pdf file in the same folder in google drive. Customize the Normalized Content function node to adjust regex for headers/footers specific to your documents. Adjust chunk size or metadata namespace in the Pinecone node to fit your project needs. An n8n automation workflow template by Alok Kumar.
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