compress_documents() — langchain Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the compress_documents() function in compressor.py from the langchain codebase.

Function python DocumentProcessing DataLoaders

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Dependency Diagram

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  1c219081_6061_3fb9_0ccd_08e0b97c9474["BaseDocumentCompressor"]
  0be47b51_f317_4ee2_9705_f08d1d944e74 -->|defined in| 1c219081_6061_3fb9_0ccd_08e0b97c9474
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Source Code

libs/core/langchain_core/documents/compressor.py lines 37–53

    def compress_documents(
        self,
        documents: Sequence[Document],
        query: str,
        callbacks: Callbacks | None = None,
    ) -> Sequence[Document]:
        """Compress retrieved documents given the query context.

        Args:
            documents: The retrieved `Document` objects.
            query: The query context.
            callbacks: Optional `Callbacks` to run during compression.

        Returns:
            The compressed documents.

        """