From 7d550bf6fe3b9a5bdcf3f676e11cb4c9d5f8853e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Mecattaf <105132455+mecattaf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 08:16:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update env-configuration.md

Add External Document Loader flags and option in content extraction engine.
---
 docs/getting-started/env-configuration.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/getting-started/env-configuration.md b/docs/getting-started/env-configuration.md
index 6816b51..9e9b6b0 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started/env-configuration.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started/env-configuration.md
@@ -1262,6 +1262,7 @@ When using Pinecone as the vector store, the following environment variables are
 - Type: `str`
 - Options:
   - Leave empty to use default
+  - `external` - Use external loader
   - `tika` - Use a local Apache Tika server
   - `docling` - Use Docling engine
   - `document_intelligence` - Use Document Intelligence engine
@@ -1276,6 +1277,20 @@ When using Pinecone as the vector store, the following environment variables are
 - Description: Specifies the Mistral OCR API key to use.
 - Persistence: This environment variable is a `PersistentConfig` variable.
 
+#### `EXTERNAL_DOCUMENT_LOADER_URL`
+
+- Type: `str`
+- Default: `None`
+- Description: Sets the URL for the external document loader service.
+- Persistence: This environment variable is a `PersistentConfig` variable.
+
+#### `EXTERNAL_DOCUMENT_LOADER_API_KEY`
+
+- Type: `str`
+- Default: `None`
+- Description: Sets the API key for authenticating with the external document loader service.
+- Persistence: This environment variable is a `PersistentConfig` variable.
+
 #### `TIKA_SERVER_URL`
 
 - Type: `str`