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Unstructured Data and LLMs with Crag Wolfe and Matt Robinson

Software Engineering Daily

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Converting PDFs with Image Pages to Text

PDFs can contain various types of content like embedded text, scanned pages, or a combination of both. When processing a PDF with image pages, they are treated as images and passed through an object detection layer to identify tables, headings, paragraphs, and narrative text. Tables within images are recognized as tables, and OCR steps are applied to extract content at the cell level. There are also experiments being conducted to convert actual images into a textual representation.

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