A practical integrity test for scientific PDF collections: identify versions, audit extraction, preserve page-level provenance, measure retrieval, and build the knowledge graph only after the evidence is stable.
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How to Search Confidential PDFs Locally on a 12 GB Laptop—Without Overbuilding RAG
A practical, privacy-first path from searchable PDFs to local retrieval: extract text, measure full-text search, add OCR or embeddings only when the evidence says you need them, and keep every result tied to its source.