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Re: Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

#14

Post by nilirl »

One thing I've struggled with before is building a collection of data models based off of a collection of PDF forms.

I wanted to abstract away the PDF form building my own html form on top of a data model that can later be used to programmatically fill the PDF .

Since I had 100s of PDFs, I wanted an OCR+LLM pipeline to build a data model for each PDF. Unfortunately, OCR + LLM works ~90% of the time but sometimes fields are missed or mislabeled in the data model.

Does this sometimes get it wrong during programmatic filling? How do you deal with that?

Re: Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

#15

Post by nip »

nilirl wrote: post #14

One thing I've struggled with before is building a collection of data models based off of a collection of PDF forms. I wanted to abstract away the PDF form building my own html form on top of a data model that can later be used to programmatically fill the PDF . Since I had 100s of PDFs, I wanted an OCR+LLM pipeline to build a data model for each PDF. Unfortunately, OCR + LLM works ~90% of the time but sometimes fiel…

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Re: Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

#16

Post by tyingq »

It is cool, but the demo is flawed, right at the second field:

  What's the business name/disregarded entity name, if different from above (line 2)?
As far as I can tell, no way to skip this, leave it empty, not even "use a space". And that field would be empty for many or most.

Re: Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

#17

Post by nip »

tyingq wrote: post #16

It is cool, but the demo is flawed, right at the second field: What's the business name/disregarded entity name, if different from above (line 2)? As far as I can tell, no way to skip this, leave it empty, not even "use a space". And that field would be empty for many or most.

Have you tried telling the LLM to just skip the field and move to the next one?

I tried with various: "Skip it", "None, leave blank", "Skip this field" and all worked for me, but if may very well be missing something very obvious?

Re: Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

#18

Post by tyingq »

nip wrote: post #17
tyingq wrote: post #16

It is cool, but the demo is flawed, right at the second field: What's the business name/disregarded entity name, if different from above (line 2)? As far as I can tell, no way to skip this, leave it empty, not even "use a space". And that field would be empty for many or most.

Have you tried telling the LLM to just skip the field and move to the next one? I tried with various: "Skip it", "None, leave blank", "Skip this field" and all worked for me, but if may very well be missing something very obvious?

That would have occured to me if it were free-form chat, but it's guided and telling me to input the value, not a chat response. Unable to try, third round hits the demo limit.

Re: Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling

#19

Post by nip »

tyingq wrote: post #18
nip wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried telling the LLM to just skip the field and move to the next one? I tried with various: "Skip it", "None, leave blank", "Skip this field" and all worked for me, but if may very well be missing something very obvious?

That would have occured to me if it were free-form chat, but it's guided and telling me to input the value, not a chat response. Unable to try, third round hits the demo limit.

I was not able to reproduce it, so I made a small video, hopefully I better understand your problem once you've seen it: https://cdn.simplepdf.com/simple-pdf/assets/hn-reply-tyingq....

In the video I let the chat fill my name, then have it skip the second field (business), then fill LLC, it makes a mistake and I correct it

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