We examine the inherent limitations of OCR from an information-theoretic perspective and show why a direct, vision-based approach with PageIndex is more effective.
PageIndex is a vectorless, reasoning-based retrieval framework that simulates how human experts extract knowledge from complex documents. Instead of relying on vector similarity search, it builds a tree-structured index from documents and enables LLMs to perform agentic reasoning over that structure for context-aware retrieval. The retrieval process is traceable and interpretable, and requires no vector DBs or chunking.
PageIndex OCR is the world's first OCR model that understands documents as a whole — preserving full structure and section hierarchy across pages, instead of treating each page as an independent unit.