This lab is currently in Beta, content may be updated as we refine the material
LABINTERMEDIATE

Document Ingestion Pipeline

Build a document ingestion pipeline for Markdown and PDF documents with chunking strategies, metadata extraction, and vector storage.

60 minutes
ai-infrastructure/rag
Document Ingestion Pipeline - Platform Engineering Hands-On Lab Icon

Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the AI Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 3. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/ai-platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 3: RAG Architectures and Vector Databases (slug: rag-architectures-103)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running Platform Assistant capstone arc that grows across all 8 weeks of the bootcamp.

This hands-on lab teaches you to build a complete document ingestion pipeline.

You'll learn to:

  • Create document loaders for Markdown and text files
  • Implement recursive and markdown-aware chunking strategies
  • Extract metadata from document structure
  • Embed and store chunks in Chroma vector database

This lab connects to the vector database you deployed previously.

What You'll Learn

Build document loaders that read and normalize Markdown and plain-text source files

Apply recursive and markdown-aware chunking strategies to balance context and retrieval precision

Extract structural metadata from document headers and frontmatter for filtered retrieval

Generate embeddings and store document chunks in a Chroma vector database

Query the populated vector store to verify ingestion quality and retrieval accuracy

Prerequisites

vector-database-deployment

chunking-strategies-lesson

Technologies Covered

document-processingchunkingembeddingschromapythonrag

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the RAG Architectures and Vector Databases course

View All Courses

Choose your plan

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Unlock full access to TeKanAid courses, labs, and bootcamps

Buying for a team? Private corporate training is available for up to 15 learners.View team training
MonthlyQuarterly

Pro

Course content without labs

$59/month

Renews automatically. Cancel anytime.

Final price verified at checkout.

  • Full access to all courses
  • Progress tracking
  • Certificate of completion
  • Community access
  • Bootcamp participation
  • New content access
Recommended

Premium

Full access with hands-on labs

$99/month

Renews automatically. Cancel anytime.

Final price verified at checkout.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Unlimited hands-on labs
  • Lab AI Assistant
  • Accelerator bootcamps with live office hours
  • Priority support
Get Access Now

Prefer a single course?

Purchase individual courses for a one-time fee of $79. Full access to course content, quizzes, certificates, and community features, lab access is not included.

Browse Courses

Try it free, no credit card

Three free ways to start. All bridge into the paid Premium catalog when you're ready.

▶ Start with free courses and labs🧩 Solve your first free puzzle📧 Get the free 7-day crash course

Not ready to commit? The crash course is email-only. No academy account required.

Ready to Get Started?

Start this hands-on lab and build real-world Platform Engineering skills

Get Access Now