diff --git a/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/_main.py b/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/_main.py
index fe3f826c2..dd92caeee 100644
--- a/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/_main.py
+++ b/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/_main.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from ragbits.core.vector_store import VectorStore, get_vector_store
 from ragbits.document_search.documents.document import Document, DocumentMeta
 from ragbits.document_search.documents.element import Element
+from ragbits.document_search.documents.sources import GCSSource, LocalFileSource, Source
 from ragbits.document_search.ingestion.document_processor import DocumentProcessorRouter
 from ragbits.document_search.ingestion.providers.base import BaseProvider
 from ragbits.document_search.retrieval.rephrasers import get_rephraser
@@ -104,7 +105,9 @@ async def search(self, query: str, search_config: SearchConfig = SearchConfig())
         return self.reranker.rerank(elements)
 
     async def ingest_document(
-        self, document: Union[DocumentMeta, Document], document_processor: Optional[BaseProvider] = None
+        self,
+        document: Union[DocumentMeta, Document, Union[LocalFileSource, GCSSource]],
+        document_processor: Optional[BaseProvider] = None,
     ) -> None:
         """
         Ingest a document.
@@ -114,7 +117,14 @@ async def ingest_document(
             document_processor: The document processor to use. If not provided, the document processor will be
                 determined based on the document metadata.
         """
-        document_meta = document if isinstance(document, DocumentMeta) else document.metadata
+
+        if isinstance(document, Source):
+            document_meta = await DocumentMeta.from_source(document)
+        elif isinstance(document, DocumentMeta):
+            document_meta = document
+        else:
+            document_meta = document.metadata
+
         if document_processor is None:
             document_processor = self.document_processor_router.get_provider(document_meta)
 
diff --git a/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/documents/document.py b/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/documents/document.py
index 2ca2ec9a6..0d43df918 100644
--- a/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/documents/document.py
+++ b/packages/ragbits-document-search/src/ragbits/document_search/documents/document.py
@@ -97,6 +97,24 @@ def from_local_path(cls, local_path: Path) -> "DocumentMeta":
             source=LocalFileSource(path=local_path),
         )
 
+    @classmethod
+    async def from_source(cls, source: Union[LocalFileSource, GCSSource]) -> "DocumentMeta":
+        """
+        Create a document metadata from a source.
+
+        Args:
+            source: The source from which the document is fetched.
+
+        Returns:
+            The document metadata.
+        """
+        path = await source.fetch()
+
+        return cls(
+            document_type=DocumentType(path.suffix[1:]),
+            source=source,
+        )
+
 
 class Document(BaseModel):
     """
diff --git a/packages/ragbits-document-search/tests/unit/test_document_search.py b/packages/ragbits-document-search/tests/unit/test_document_search.py
index 76743c890..ba8695b11 100644
--- a/packages/ragbits-document-search/tests/unit/test_document_search.py
+++ b/packages/ragbits-document-search/tests/unit/test_document_search.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import tempfile
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Union
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
@@ -7,8 +8,10 @@
 from ragbits.core.vector_store.in_memory import InMemoryVectorStore
 from ragbits.document_search import DocumentSearch
 from ragbits.document_search._main import SearchConfig
-from ragbits.document_search.documents.document import Document, DocumentMeta
+from ragbits.document_search.documents.document import Document, DocumentMeta, DocumentType
 from ragbits.document_search.documents.element import TextElement
+from ragbits.document_search.documents.sources import LocalFileSource
+from ragbits.document_search.ingestion.document_processor import DocumentProcessorRouter
 from ragbits.document_search.ingestion.providers.dummy import DummyProvider
 
 CONFIG = {
@@ -46,6 +49,33 @@ async def test_document_search_from_config(document, expected):
     assert first_result.content == expected
 
 
+async def test_document_search_ingest_document_from_source():
+    embeddings_mock = AsyncMock()
+    embeddings_mock.embed_text.return_value = [[0.1, 0.1]]
+
+    providers = {DocumentType.TXT: DummyProvider()}
+    router = DocumentProcessorRouter.from_config(providers)
+
+    document_search = DocumentSearch(
+        embedder=embeddings_mock, vector_store=InMemoryVectorStore(), document_processor_router=router
+    )
+
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".txt") as f:
+        f.write(b"Name of Peppa's brother is George")
+        f.seek(0)
+
+        source = LocalFileSource(path=Path(f.name))
+
+        await document_search.ingest_document(source)
+
+        results = await document_search.search("Peppa's brother")
+
+    first_result = results[0]
+
+    assert isinstance(first_result, TextElement)
+    assert first_result.content == "Name of Peppa's brother is George"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "document",
     [