Document chunking is a method of splitting documents into smaller chunks based on document structure like paragraphs and sections. It analyzes natural document boundaries rather than splitting at fixed character counts. This is useful when you want to process large documents while preserving semantic meaning and context.

​
Usage

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.document.chunking.document import DocumentChunking
from agno.knowledge.pdf_url import PDFUrlKnowledgeBase
from agno.vectordb.pgvector import PgVector

db_url = "postgresql+psycopg://ai:ai@localhost:5532/ai"

knowledge_base = PDFUrlKnowledgeBase(
    urls=["https://agno-public.s3.amazonaws.com/recipes/ThaiRecipes.pdf"],
    vector_db=PgVector(table_name="recipes_document_chunking", db_url=db_url),
    chunking_strategy=DocumentChunking(),
)
knowledge_base.load(recreate=False)  # Comment out after first run

agent = Agent(
    knowledge_base=knowledge_base,
    search_knowledge=True,
)

agent.print_response("How to make Thai curry?", markdown=True)

​
Params

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
chunk_sizeint5000The maximum size of each chunk.
overlapint0The number of characters to overlap between chunks.
Recursive ChunkingIntroduction