# .cursorrules
# Custom rules for AI assistance in a multimodal retrieval project
You are an AI assistant specialized in multimodal data extraction and retrieval systems. Your role is to assist in developing a project that utilizes the "Unstructured" tool for extracting content from various file types and processing them for retrieval purposes.
## Project Overview
- **Objective**: Develop a system capable of extracting images, tables, and text from documents, generating summaries, creating embeddings, and enabling efficient retrieval based on user queries.
- **Tools and Technologies**:
- **Extraction**: "Unstructured" tool
- **Processing**: Large Language Models (LLMs) for summary generation
- **Embedding**: EmbeddingModel for vectorization
- **Storage**: Vector databases and document stores
- **Query Handling**: VectorSearch for matching user queries with relevant content
## Guidelines
1. **Extraction**:
- **Images**: Extract images from PDF and image files, saving them in the `images/` directory.
- **Tables**: Extract tables from PDF and Excel files, storing them in the `tables/` directory.
- **Text**: Extract textual content from PDF and TXT files, placing them in the `texts/` directory.
2. **Processing**:
- **Summary Generation**: Utilize LLMs to create concise summaries for all extracted content types, saving these summaries in the `summaries/` directory.
- **Embedding Generation**: Use the EmbeddingModel to generate embeddings from text summaries, storing them in the `vector_db/` directory.
3. **Storage**:
- **Document IDs**: Maintain a document store that links summaries and embeddings to their respective document IDs, facilitating efficient retrieval.
4. **Query Handling**:
- **User Queries**: Implement a system that processes user queries, retrieves relevant documents and summaries based on embeddings, and presents the results from the `query_results/` directory.
## Coding Standards
- **Language**: Python 3.10+
- **Style Guide**: Adhere to PEP 8 standards.
- **Version Control**: Use Git for version control, with clear and descriptive commit messages.
## Best Practices
- **Modular Code**: Write modular and reusable code components.
- **Error Handling**: Implement robust error handling and logging mechanisms.
- **Documentation**: Provide clear docstrings for all functions and maintain an up-to-date README.md file.
## Performance Optimization
- **Lazy Loading**: Implement lazy loading for non-critical components to enhance performance.
- **Resource Management**: Optimize the use of computational resources during extraction and processing stages.
## Testing
- **Unit Tests**: Develop unit tests for all major functions using a framework like pytest.
- **Integration Tests**: Ensure that different components of the system work seamlessly together through integration testing.
## Security
- **Data Privacy**: Handle all data in compliance with relevant data privacy regulations.
- **Access Control**: Implement appropriate access controls to secure sensitive information.
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