LlamaIndex
Data framework for connecting private custom data sources to large language models.
Overview
LlamaIndex provides robust data ingestion, chunking, indexing, and query pipelines to connect private documents, databases, and APIs to LLMs for production-grade retrieval-augmented generation.
Key Capabilities
- Document loaders for over 160 formats including PDF, Notion, Slack, and SQL
- Advanced indexing strategies (hierarchical, keyword, graph, and vector indices)
- LlamaParse document parsing engine extracting structured markdown tables
Ideal Use Cases & Goals
- “Building enterprise document search across millions of PDF files”
- “Ingesting multimodal documents into vector search databases”
- “Creating conversational question-answering agents over private knowledge”
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