## Feature Extraction

Feature extraction is the task of converting a text into a vector (often called "embedding").

Example applications:
* Retrieving the most relevant documents for a query (for RAG applications).
* Reranking a list of documents based on their similarity to a query.
* Calculating the similarity between two sentences.

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### Recommended models

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### Using the API

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### API specification

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