Today, Contextual AI announces the release of the Chunk Inspector, a visual debugging tool that allows developers to examine and validate document parsing and chunking results.

Clients can now inspect how their documents are processed through our extraction pipeline, viewing rendered metadata, extracted text, tables or image captioning results for each chunk. This transparency enables developers to diagnose extraction issues, optimize chunking configurations, and ensure their documents are properly RAG-ready before deployment.

The Chunk Inspector provides immediate visibility into how your datastore configuration affects document processing, making it easier to fine-tune parsing and chunking settings for optimal retrieval performance.

To get started, simply navigate to the Chunk Inspector in your datastore UI after ingesting a document to review the extraction and chunking results.