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Managing Documents

Add documents to your knowledge bases.

Supported Formats​

FormatExtension
PDF.pdf
Word.docx
Text.txt
Markdown.md
HTML.html

Uploading Documents​

Via UI​

  1. Navigate to your knowledge base
  2. Click Add Documents
  3. Select files to upload
  4. Wait for processing

Via API​

curl -X POST https://api.flowmaestro.ai/knowledge-bases/{id}/documents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@document.pdf"

Document Processing​

  1. Text Extraction — Content extracted from the file
  2. Cleaning — Formatting normalized, noise removed
  3. Chunking — Split into ~500 token chunks with overlap
  4. Embedding — Each chunk converted to vectors
  5. Indexing — Stored in vector database
tip

Keep documents focused. Smaller, topic-specific documents often provide better search results.