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Library Ingestion
Converting Papers to Vector Embeddings
1. CHUNKING
2. EMBEDDING
Semantic Search
Retrieving Papers by Meaning
1. QUERY VECTOR
2. SIMILARITY SEARCH
3. SNIPPET MATCH
PDF / HTML
Raw Documents
PDFs and pages are read into Zotero.
LLM EMBEDDING
Vectorization Model
A local AI converts text chunks to numbers.
VECTOR INDEX
Local Vector DB
Vectors are stored so meaning is searchable.
AI tools...
Natural Language Query
Ask questions directly to your library.
Embed Search Query
Text is transformed to the same vector space.
98% SIMILAR
Similarity Match (K-NN)
Finds vector neighbors closest in meaning.
CONTEXT RETRIEVED
Relevant Context
Exact matched snippet is extracted.