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The JSON extract actually looks pretty good and seems to produce something usable in one shot, which is very good compared to all the other tools I've tried so far, but I still need to check it more in-depth.
Sharing here in case someone chimes in with "hey, doofus, $magic_project already solves this."
Given the current llm context size limitation, what is the state of art for feeding large doc/text blobs into llm for accurate processing?
Generally use 2.5 flash for this, works incredibly well. So many traditionally hard things can now we solved by stuffing it into a pretty cheap llm haha.
I just tested it on one of my nemeses: PDF bank statements. They're surprisingly tough to work with if you want to get clean, structured transaction data out of them. The JSON extract actually looks pretty good and seems to produce something usable in one shot, which is very good compared to all the other tools I've tried so far, but I still need to check it more in-depth. Sharing here in case someone chimes in with…
I've been thinking lately that maybe we need a new AI-friendly file format rather than continuing to hack on top of PDF's complicated spec. PDF was designed to have consistent and portable page display rendering, it was not a goal for it to be easily parseable afaik, which is why we have to go through these crazy hoops. If you've ever looked at how text is stored internally in PDF this becomes immediately obvious. I'…
Wouldn’t it be better to invest in a human-friendly format first (which also could be AI-friendly).
Your transactions are probably already available in CSV.
I just tested it on one of my nemeses: PDF bank statements. They're surprisingly tough to work with if you want to get clean, structured transaction data out of them. The JSON extract actually looks pretty good and seems to produce something usable in one shot, which is very good compared to all the other tools I've tried so far, but I still need to check it more in-depth. Sharing here in case someone chimes in with…
How does it compare to docling?
How does it compare to docling?
How does it compare to docling?
Docling primarily uses AI models to extract PDF content, this project looks like it uses a custom parser written in Java, built atop veraPDF.
I've been thinking lately that maybe we need a new AI-friendly file format rather than continuing to hack on top of PDF's complicated spec. PDF was designed to have consistent and portable page display rendering, it was not a goal for it to be easily parseable afaik, which is why we have to go through these crazy hoops. If you've ever looked at how text is stored internally in PDF this becomes immediately obvious. I'…