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Part 11 · Module 2: Document Ingestion and Parsing

Topic 5: Normalization

8 min read·21 Sept 2026

Topic 5: Normalization

Intuition: Normalization is washing vegetables before cooking. Invisible dirt (odd characters, broken words, repeated footers, duplicate copies) spoils search results even when the parse looked fine.

5.1 Unicode, Whitespace, Ligatures, and Hyphenation

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