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@@ -175,6 +175,16 @@ this is a much longer sentence
 
 Let's search for `"she entered the room"` in *Pride and Prejudice*:
 
+````{admonition} SciPy
+:class: note
+
+The example below uses SciPy to speed up computations. To install SciPy you can run `pip install scipy`, or install
+it together with other optional dependencies using `pip install "docarray[full]"`.
+
+Alternatively, you can run the example below without SciPy by setting `use_scipy=False` in the `.match()` method.
+````
+
+
 ```python
 from docarray import Document, DocumentArray