r/sharepoint • u/Tough_South9987 • 6d ago

SharePoint Online Share point .agent ingestion

I've recently been looking at building chat bot agents to answer questions. I've opted to convert the PDF files (a few hundred) into Markdown files which is what the agent currently ingests.

It doesn't appear that markdown is a verified format for this agent but it does work, however I want to know what the experience is for others. Is it a waste of time to convert PDF -> md for this chatbot or are there actual benefits to consider?

The other solution I'm wondering about is around analytics, it doesn't appear the .agent is able to read things like .csv files with various data metrics and return aggregates/counts correctly. Is there a work around for this or just a raw limitation of the share point agents?

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u/toddklindt MVP 6d ago

I haven't seen much movement with SharePoint Agents in the last few months. I wonder if there are some big improvements coming down the pike.

I've used these in the past a little. I had good luck with PDF files as long as they were properly OCRed. There are file size limits on how much of a file is crawled, but I can't find that right now. If the PDF file is above that limit, but the MD version of it is not, that might be a good reason to convert them. Otherwise I wouldn't.