Hacker News with Generative AI: Document Processing

Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG (ycombinator.com)
Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG!
Liberate tabular data from scanned documents (blog.wzb.eu)
During the last months I often had to deal with the problem of extracting tabular data from scanned documents.
From PDFs to AI-ready structured data: a deep dive (explosion.ai)
PDFs are ubiquitous in industry and daily life. Paper is scanned, documents are sent and received as PDF, and they’re often kept as the archival copy. Unfortunately, processing PDFs is hard. In this blog post, I’ll present a new modular workflow for converting PDFs and similar documents to structured data and show how to build end-to-end document understanding and information extraction pipelines for industry use cases.
Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data (github.com/DocumindHQ)
Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we are Max, Kieran, and Aahel from Midship (https://midship.ai). Midship makes it easy to extract data from unstructured documents like pdfs and images.
Docling parses documents and exports them to desired format with ease and speed (ds4sd.github.io)
Docling parses documents and exports them to the desired format with ease and speed.