diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
index 128fc29c0..fdc6f5616 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ pub(crate) fn data_from_obkv_documents(
     faceted_fields: HashSet<FieldId>,
     primary_key_id: FieldId,
     geo_fields_ids: Option<(FieldId, FieldId)>,
+    vector_field_id: Option<FieldId>,
     stop_words: Option<fst::Set<&[u8]>>,
     max_positions_per_attributes: Option<u32>,
     exact_attributes: HashSet<FieldId>,
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ pub(crate) fn data_from_obkv_documents(
                     &faceted_fields,
                     primary_key_id,
                     geo_fields_ids,
+                    vector_field_id,
                     &stop_words,
                     max_positions_per_attributes,
                 )
@@ -281,6 +283,7 @@ fn send_and_extract_flattened_documents_data(
     faceted_fields: &HashSet<FieldId>,
     primary_key_id: FieldId,
     geo_fields_ids: Option<(FieldId, FieldId)>,
+    vector_field_id: Option<FieldId>,
     stop_words: &Option<fst::Set<&[u8]>>,
     max_positions_per_attributes: Option<u32>,
 ) -> Result<(
@@ -309,6 +312,20 @@ fn send_and_extract_flattened_documents_data(
         });
     }
 
+    if let Some(vector_field_id) = vector_field_id {
+        let documents_chunk_cloned = flattened_documents_chunk.clone();
+        let lmdb_writer_sx_cloned = lmdb_writer_sx.clone();
+        rayon::spawn(move || {
+            let result = extract_vector_points(documents_chunk_cloned, indexer, vector_field_id);
+            let _ = match result {
+                Ok(vector_points) => {
+                    lmdb_writer_sx_cloned.send(Ok(TypedChunk::VectorPoints(vector_points)))
+                }
+                Err(error) => lmdb_writer_sx_cloned.send(Err(error)),
+            };
+        });
+    }
+
     let (docid_word_positions_chunk, docid_fid_facet_values_chunks): (Result<_>, Result<_>) =
         rayon::join(
             || {
diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
index 993f87a1f..adbab54db 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/mod.rs
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ where
             }
             None => None,
         };
+        // get the fid of the `_vector` field.
+        let vector_field_id = self.index.fields_ids_map(self.wtxn)?.id("_vector");
 
         let stop_words = self.index.stop_words(self.wtxn)?;
         let exact_attributes = self.index.exact_attributes_ids(self.wtxn)?;
@@ -340,6 +342,7 @@ where
                     faceted_fields,
                     primary_key_id,
                     geo_fields_ids,
+                    vector_field_id,
                     stop_words,
                     max_positions_per_attributes,
                     exact_attributes,
diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs
index 89b10bffe..8b3477948 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/typed_chunk.rs
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ pub(crate) enum TypedChunk {
     FieldIdFacetIsNullDocids(grenad::Reader<File>),
     FieldIdFacetIsEmptyDocids(grenad::Reader<File>),
     GeoPoints(grenad::Reader<File>),
+    VectorPoints(grenad::Reader<File>),
     ScriptLanguageDocids(HashMap<(Script, Language), RoaringBitmap>),
 }
 
@@ -221,6 +222,29 @@ pub(crate) fn write_typed_chunk_into_index(
             index.put_geo_rtree(wtxn, &rtree)?;
             index.put_geo_faceted_documents_ids(wtxn, &geo_faceted_docids)?;
         }
+        TypedChunk::VectorPoints(vector_points) => {
+            // let mut rtree = index.geo_rtree(wtxn)?.unwrap_or_default();
+            // let mut geo_faceted_docids = index.geo_faceted_documents_ids(wtxn)?;
+
+            // let mut cursor = geo_points.into_cursor()?;
+            // while let Some((key, value)) = cursor.move_on_next()? {
+            //     // convert the key back to a u32 (4 bytes)
+            //     let docid = key.try_into().map(DocumentId::from_be_bytes).unwrap();
+
+            //     // convert the latitude and longitude back to a f64 (8 bytes)
+            //     let (lat, tail) = helpers::try_split_array_at::<u8, 8>(value).unwrap();
+            //     let (lng, _) = helpers::try_split_array_at::<u8, 8>(tail).unwrap();
+            //     let point = [f64::from_ne_bytes(lat), f64::from_ne_bytes(lng)];
+            //     let xyz_point = lat_lng_to_xyz(&point);
+
+            //     rtree.insert(GeoPoint::new(xyz_point, (docid, point)));
+            //     geo_faceted_docids.insert(docid);
+            // }
+            // index.put_geo_rtree(wtxn, &rtree)?;
+            // index.put_geo_faceted_documents_ids(wtxn, &geo_faceted_docids)?;
+
+            todo!("index vector points")
+        }
         TypedChunk::ScriptLanguageDocids(hash_pair) => {
             let mut buffer = Vec::new();
             for (key, value) in hash_pair {