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hgrsd.nl 27d ago

Simplicity, Agency, and Mastery

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e.customeriomail.com 1mo ago

Balsamiq Turns 18

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inessential.com 1mo ago

NetNewsWire Status

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www.ft.com 3mo ago

Raspberry Pi profit surges as AI boom lifts demand

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blog.haskell.org 3mo ago

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

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github.com 4mo ago

Visitran: Agentic Pythonic data transformation platform(AGPL)

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stargazingbuddy.com 5mo ago

A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment

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huggingface.co 6mo ago

FinePDFs: Liberating 3T of the finest tokens from PDFs

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sentry.io 8mo ago

Sentry – No Marketing Mode

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reducto.ai 9mo ago

Reducto Raises $108M to Shape the Future of AI Document Intelligence

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support.freepik.com 9mo ago

Iconfinder will permanently close on November 15, 2025

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www.retab.com 11mo ago

Retab: The developer starter pack for document processing

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unstract.com 11mo ago

Understanding why deterministic output from LLMs is nearly impossible

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www.mozilla.ai 12mo ago

Lumigator: The Dev Tool for AI Model Evaluation

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www.mozilla.ai 12mo ago

Any-agent: A single interface to use and evaluate different agent frameworks

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unstract.com 1y ago

Specification Grounding: The Missing Link in Vibe Coding

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posthog.com 1y ago

DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

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www.thecaptainslog.io 1y ago

Groupon Has Become a GLP-1 Affiliate Marketing and Bootleg MS Office Racket

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www.ft.com 1y ago

There's no leader quite like Toyota's Akio Toyoda

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unstract.com 1y ago

Why LLMs Are Not (Yet) the Silver Bullet for Unstructured Data Processing

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maybefinance.com 1y ago

Show HN: Maybe – The personal finance app for everyone

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bellard.org 1y ago

Ts_server: A web server proposing a REST API to large language models

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www.timescale.com 1y ago

Scaling Document Data Extraction with LLMs and Vector Databases

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teracy.io 1y ago

Next-Gen Virtual Office App.Remote Work Reimagined

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www.chunkr.ai 1y ago

Open Source API service for document layout analysis, OCR and chunking

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WordPress Bans WP Engine Customers

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MidrasAI: Simple API for text and image retrieval

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Playground – AI Design and Editor

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unstract.com 1y ago

Unstract: Open-source ETL pipelines to structure unstructured documents

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localops.co 1y ago

Localops: Streamline Private SaaS Deployments

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I also want to try Qwen 3.5 plus. I have a doubt, I see almost same pricing for both Qwen and Claude code(the difference being the highest pro plan looks cheaper), and not for the lower plans. Am I missing something, when you say “cheaper” ??

What matters most is how well OCR and structured data extraction tools handle documents with high variation at production scale. In real workflows like accounting, every invoice, purchase order, or contract can look different. The extraction system must still work reliably across these variations with minimal ongoing tweaks.

Equally important is how easily you can build a human-in-the-loop review layer on top of the tool. This is needed not only to improve accuracy, but also for compliance—especially in regulated industries like insurance.

Other tools in this space:

LLMWhisperer/Unstract(AGPL)

Reducto

Extend Ai

LLamaparse

Docling

Mistral OCR 3 7 months ago

At instances where data accuracy is of paramount importance, i think a hybrid route of non-llm ocr for data parsing and LLMs for structured data extraction is the safe passage to tread on. Seen better results for LLMWhisperer(OCR)[1] and Latest Gemini.

[1] https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/

DeepSeek OCR 9 months ago

Why PDF parsing is Hell[1]:

Fixed layout and lack of semantic structure in PDFs.

Non-linear text flow due to columns, sidebars, or images.

Position-based text without contextual or relational markers.

Absence of standard structure tags (like in HTML).

Scanned or image-based PDFs requiring OCR.

Preprocessing needs for scanned PDFs (noise, rotation, skew).

Extracting tables from unstructured or visually complex layouts.

Multi-column and fancy layouts breaking semantic text order.

Background images and watermarks interfering with text extraction.

Handwritten text recognition challenges.

[1] https://unstract.com/blog/pdf-hell-and-practical-rag-applica...

Getting past 200 pages is the tough part. Hope I’ll get through. Also, getting used to so many characters with unfamiliar Russian names is slowing things down. Let's see.

Any tips and tricks for reading the magnum opus? Would help!