500 error in a Next.js API route

[Tax-Technology]

Without editing the code I receive a 500 error when running the legal-semantic-search sample app. Is this a server side bug?

Also, if I want to use the app for my different legal documents, do I just remove the existing sample PDFs upload my own PDFs? or is there manual changes to be made e.g. to the db.json file etc? Is there a set-up video tutorial available?

[mohitdudhat22]

Maybe you forgot to set up the environment, and replacing the existing sample PDF directly may not work, because the document states that PDFs are parsed by langchain.

[zackproser]

@Tax-Technology Thanks for reporting.

I haven't yet been able to reproduce on a fresh installation using the npx command:

npx create-pinecone-app@latest --template legal-semantic-search

Could you please ensure that the following environment variables are defined and see if that makes a difference?

• PINECONE_API_KEY
• VOYAGE_API_KEY
• PINECONE_INDEX

[zackproser]

You definitely can swap in your own arbitrary PDFs. The bootstrapping service will read them, chunk them and upsert them into your index, as you can see here.

To swap in your own custom PDFs, change:

1. The PDF files in the /docs directory
2. The entries in db.json

Hope this helps!