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Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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> a major commercial bank I work with couldn’t improve credit risk models because critical data was stuck in PDFs and emails. Great use case! Worked on exactly this a decade ago. It was Hard™ then. Could only make so much progress. Getting this right is a huge value unlock. Congrats!

Make sure you have an on-premise option for this type of customer. I've worked at two software companies in Europe with tangentially similar products related to document analysis. On premise is a key requirement. Even though it's 2024, banks, financial institutions like insurance companies etc. tend to be _very_ cautious with valuable documents involving customers. There are also regional regulations that prevent thi…

On-prem is theater if the OS isn't libre.

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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What about a pdf with many separate datapoints on it? For instance, I have 100 pdfs, each with 10-100 individual products listed (in different formats). I want to create a single table with one row per product appearing in any of the PDFs, with various details like price, product description, etc., From what I can tell from the demo, it seems like 1 file = 1 row in Trellis?

Good question and we have seen this extraction workflow a lot in financial services. We just added table mode to the product (select table in transformation parameters) where we extract table structure in the documents that match that schema. So 1 file map to N rows where N is all the row in the table.

I'm having trouble finding table mode in the demo you linked. Where can I find it?
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