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Adding Headings to PDF Text for AI: Do They Help Retrieval? (And Why Everything After Page 1 Was One Level Off)
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Dev.to | Sep 29, 2026 | Okinawa Software Lab
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I measured whether headings actually help retrieval and whether wrong headings are worse than none. With half the headings wrong, retrieval was still never below no headings. Body text is 10. 5pt, large headings 14pt, small headings 12pt, and the font is Yu Gothic.
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