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The architecture diagram is replaced with the new animated version. While updating the reference, the supported-format list was checked against conf/config.yaml and had drifted.

Diagram

  • README carries the animated GIF. It plays once instead of looping: a 7.4s animation looping indefinitely with no pause control conflicts with WCAG 2.2.2, which is worth avoiding given public-sector deployments. The loop block was removed at byte level, so all 148 frames, timings and transparency are unchanged.
  • Documentation site keeps a static image. Its <Image> component processes assets through Sharp, which strips GIF animation — it would have rendered a frozen first frame with no error. The static file is the composited final frame, so both surfaces show the same diagram.
  • Declared height moves from 350 to 420 to match the new 1012×708 ratio (the old value was already mismatched against the previous 1920×903 image).
  • The orphaned root RAG_architecture.png is removed. The only remaining mention is in tests/resources/test_file.txt, a frozen snapshot of an older README used as text-extraction test input — not a live reference, and deliberately left untouched.

Format list corrections

Checked against conf/config.yaml:

  • eml added — supported via EmlLoader, previously absent from the list while the diagram advertises e-mail.
  • flac added — supported, previously absent.
  • mp4 and flv moved out of Audio Files into their own Video Files row. Both are classified DocumentType.VIDEO and routed to the transcription backend, which extracts the audio track.
  • Captions wording corrected — images are replaced by generated descriptions only when image captioning is enabled, not unconditionally.

Also

The documentation homepage meta description was still the Starlight scaffold placeholder ("This is a page in my Starlight-powered site"), which is what search engines and link previews were showing.

Out of scope

Positioning is deliberately untouched. The "Experimentation Playground" heading and the "lightweight… focused on experimentation" paragraph remain in both files, and are proposed separately so they can be reviewed alongside the website messaging.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated the architecture visual with an animated image and improved its display size.
    • Expanded supported file formats to include email, audio, and video.
    • Corrected file-extension details and refined email and image descriptions.
    • Clarified Markdown conversion behavior, including AI-generated descriptions for parser-extractable images.
    • Identified OpenRag as a sovereign, open source Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework built by Linagora.

Replace the architecture diagram with the new animated version. The GIF
plays once rather than looping: an indefinitely looping 7.4s animation
with no pause control conflicts with WCAG 2.2.2, which matters for
public-sector deployments. The loop block was removed at byte level, so
all 148 frames, timings and transparency are untouched.

The documentation site keeps a static image. Its <Image> component runs
assets through Sharp, which strips GIF animation and would have rendered
a frozen first frame with no error. The static file is the composited
final frame of the animation, so both places show the same diagram. Its
declared height moves from 350 to 420 to match the new 1012x708 ratio.

Also correct the supported-format list against conf/config.yaml:

- add eml and flac, both supported but previously unlisted
- move mp4 and flv out of "Audio Files" into their own Video row
- reword the Markdown conversion note, since image captioning only
  replaces images when it is enabled

Finally, replace the Starlight scaffold placeholder that was still
serving as the documentation homepage meta description.
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The README now references the GIF architecture image. It documents email, audio, and video formats and parser-extractable images that may receive AI-generated descriptions during Markdown conversion.
Site documentation
docs/content/docs/index.mdx, docs/content/docs/documentation/features_in_details.md
The site identifies OpenRag as a sovereign, open source Retrieval-Augmented Generation framework. It increases the architecture image height to 420 pixels and documents email attachments, audio and video transcription, VLM-powered image analysis, and Markdown conversion behavior.

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This documentation-only change updates the architecture assets, supported-format list, and site metadata; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In `@docs/content/docs/index.mdx`:
- Line 3: Update the description metadata near the document front matter to
explicitly identify OpenRag as an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
tool, replacing the generic concept-focused wording while preserving the
existing Linagora attribution.

In `@README.md`:
- Line 37: Update the Images entry in the user-facing list to hyphenate the
compound modifier as “Vision Language Model (VLM)-powered,” preserving the
existing image format list and description.
- Line 39: Update the README sentence about image captioning so it limits image
replacement to images the parser can replace in Markdown, while still stating
that embedded or attached images may receive AI-generated descriptions.
- Line 34: Update the E-mail capability description near EmlParser to remove the
claim that thread relationships are preserved, since the ingestion path only
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The e-mail entry claimed thread relationships are preserved. EmlParser
extracts subject, from, to, date and message-id, but has no In-Reply-To
or References handling and never populates relationship_id — threading
is caller-supplied, per the document-relationships documentation. The
entry now describes what the parser actually does, including attachment
dispatch, which is the more useful capability anyway.

Also: name the product in the documentation meta description so search
results and link previews identify OpenRag rather than describing the
RAG concept generically; hyphenate the "(VLM)-powered" compound
modifier; and narrow the captioning note to images the parser can
extract.
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Thanks @coderabbitai — all four addressed in 44fe893.

E-mail description (README:34) — you were right, and this was the one that mattered. I had written "thread relationships preserved", which the parser does not do. EmlParser extracts subject, from, to, date and message-id, but there is no In-Reply-To or References handling and it never populates relationship_id. Threading is caller-supplied, as the document-relationships documentation states.

Replaced with what the parser actually does — and it turns out to be a better line, since attachment dispatch through each format's own pipeline is the more interesting capability:

E-mail: eml - Message body and headers, with attachments parsed through their own format's pipeline

Meta description (index.mdx:3) — agreed, the value described the concept rather than the product. Adopted with one change: "framework" rather than "tool", to match how the README and website describe OpenRag.

VLM hyphenation (README:37) — applied.

Captioning scope (README:39) — narrowed to "images the parser can extract", since replacement depends on what each format's parser surfaces.

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Timestamp: 2026-08-25T13:44:10.961Z
Learning: In OpenRAG, `EmlParser` extracts e-mail message fields such as subject, sender, recipients, date, and message ID. It does not process `In-Reply-To` or `References`, and it does not populate `relationship_id`; callers must supply e-mail threading relationships. Attachments are dispatched through their respective format pipelines.

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Reviewed — verified the format-list corrections against conf/config.yaml (eml/flac/mp4/flv all check out) and the GIF loop-removal claim at byte level (no NETSCAPE2.0 extension block present). Two things worth flagging before merge:

  1. Format-list drift wasn't fully fixed: docs/content/docs/documentation/features_in_details.md has the same stale content this PR corrects elsewhere — mp4/flv still lumped into "Audio Files" instead of a Video row, no eml entry, and the same "images replaced by AI-generated captions... consistent processing" wording implying unconditional captioning (already reworded in README.md, not here). After this merges, that page will disagree with README.md/index.mdx on supported formats.

  2. Minor/inert: tests/resources/test_file.txt:3 still references ./RAG_architecture.png (a static fixture — old README snapshot used for text-extraction tests, not a live link, doesn't break CI). Just means "nothing referenced it after the swap" isn't literally true.

Nothing blocking otherwise — CI is green and CodeRabbit's earlier comments were already addressed in the second commit.

The features page carried a byte-identical copy of the stale README
block, so correcting only README.md and index.mdx would have left the
documentation site contradicting them on supported formats.

The page also disagreed with itself: the Audio & Video section below
already lists flac, which the format list above omitted.
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Thanks @Ahmath-Gadji — both findings were correct, and both were mine.

1. Format-list drift — fixed in 11f1c6f. You're right that merging as-is would have left the documentation site contradicting the README. features_in_details.md carried a byte-identical copy of the stale block, so it now gets the same corrections: eml added, mp4/flv moved to a Video row, flac added, and the captioning sentence reworded.

Worth noting the page already disagreed with itself before this: the "Audio & Video File Processing" section immediately below listed flac correctly, while the format list above omitted it. Both are now consistent.

Docs site rebuilt after the change — 28 pages, clean.

2. Test fixture — leaving it, correcting my claim instead. You're right that "nothing referenced it after the swap" wasn't literally true. tests/resources/test_file.txt is a snapshot of the old README used as text-extraction input, so its content is deliberately frozen test data rather than a live reference — editing it would change the fixture for no benefit. I've corrected the PR description rather than the file, since the inaccuracy was in my wording, not in the code.

One knock-on for whoever picks up the positioning work: that fixture also contains the old Experimentation Playground heading, so it will keep diverging from the real README as the copy changes. Harmless for the tests either way, just worth knowing it isn't a mirror.

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Confirmed — both addressed. `11f1c6f` brings `features_in_details.md` in line with README.md/index.mdx and `conf/config.yaml`, and fixes the pre-existing self-contradiction (flac was already correct in the "Audio & Video" section below). Agreed the test fixture is frozen test data, not a live doc — fine to leave as-is with the PR description corrected instead. CI is green. LGTM from my side.

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