User Documentation

Welcome to the QDrant Loader user documentation! This section provides comprehensive guides for using QDrant Loader effectively, whether you're a content creator, researcher, system administrator, or anyone who needs to work with technical content and AI-powered tools.

🎯 What You'll Find Here

This documentation is organized to help you accomplish specific tasks and understand all the features available to you:

📚 Detailed Guides

• Data Sources - Complete guides for all supported data sources
• File Conversion - Everything about processing different file types
• MCP Server - AI development integration and search capabilities
• Workflow Examples - Real-world usage scenarios and best practices

⚙️ Configuration

• Configuration Reference - Complete configuration options and examples
• Environment Variables - All environment settings explained

🖥️ Command Line Interface

• CLI Reference - Complete command-line interface documentation
• Commands - All commands with examples and options
• Automation - Scripting and automation examples

🔧 Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting Guide - Solutions to common problems
• Common Issues - FAQ and quick fixes
• Performance - Speed and memory optimization

🚀 Quick Navigation

I want to

📥 Load data from different sources

• Git repositories - Code, docs, and commit history
• Confluence - Wiki pages and documentation
• JIRA - Issues, tickets, and project data
• Local files - Documents and files on your system
• Public documentation - External websites and docs

📄 Process different file types

• PDF documents - Extract text and metadata
• Office documents - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Images - OCR and AI-powered analysis
• All supported formats - Complete format list

🤖 Integrate with AI tools

• Cursor IDE setup - AI-powered coding assistance
• Search capabilities - Semantic and intelligent search
• Hierarchy navigation - Document structure understanding

⚙️ Configure and optimize

• Environment setup - Required and optional settings
• Security considerations - API keys and permissions

🔧 Solve problems

• Common issues - Quick solutions to frequent problems
• Data source problems - Source-specific troubleshooting
• Performance issues - Speed and memory problems

🎯 User Personas and Workflows

📝 Content Creators and Technical Writers

Goal: Organize and make documentation searchable across multiple platforms

Recommended path:

1. Confluence integration - Connect your wiki
2. File conversion - Process existing documents
3. Content workflow - Best practices

🔬 Researchers and Analysts

Goal: Search and analyze large amounts of technical content

Recommended path:

1. Local files setup - Index your research materials
2. Advanced search - Powerful search tools
3. Research workflow - Research best practices

👨‍💻 Software Developers

Goal: Integrate documentation and code context with AI development tools

Recommended path:

1. Git integration - Connect your repositories
2. Cursor setup - AI coding assistance
3. Multi-project setup - Managing multiple codebases

🏢 System Administrators

Goal: Set up and maintain QDrant Loader for team or organization use

Recommended path:

1. Configuration reference - Complete setup guide
2. Security considerations - Secure deployment
3. Performance optimization - Scale for your team

📊 Feature Coverage

Data Sources

File Types

AI Integration

🆘 Getting Help

Quick Help

• Common Issues - Solutions to frequent problems
• FAQ - Quick answers to common questions

Community Support

• GitHub Issues - Bug reports and feature requests
• GitHub Discussions - Community Q&A and discussions
• Getting Help Guide - How to get effective support

Documentation Feedback

Found an issue with the documentation? Help us improve:

• Report documentation issues
• Suggest improvements

🔄 What's New

Recent Updates

• Enhanced file conversion - Support for 20+ file types with AI-powered processing
• Improved Confluence integration - Better hierarchy understanding and attachment support
• Advanced MCP search tools - Semantic, hierarchy-aware, and attachment-focused search
• Performance optimizations - Faster processing and reduced memory usage

Coming Soon

• Additional data sources - More connectors in development
• Enhanced AI integration - Expanded tool support and capabilities
• Improved performance - Continued optimization and scaling improvements

Ready to dive in? Start with the Data Sources guide or jump to a specific topic that interests you. If you're new to QDrant Loader, consider starting with the Getting Started section first.