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I would settle for a local model to extract tables from PDFs. MS Co-Pilot is really disappointing in its utility and integration. Power Automate offers an Adob

I would settle for a local model to extract tables from PDFs. MS Co-Pilot is really disappointing in its utility and integration. Power Automate offers an Adobe connector that purports to do so but my data loss prevention policies forbid me to connect to third parties. GPT4o does a great job of taking a PDF and giving me exactly the contents in a csv of my specification, but again, can't do this with customer data. I'm looking at what is possible with llama3 as an azure service but it looks very complex to set up, I think I need to have a "data verse" and a network configuration to allow serverless compute to connect to my files. That will be nice tho when I can have the results of the PDF extraction insert rows into my excel files. I don't use Salesforce but I'm jealous of people who have a platform that they can actually integrate AI with their customer data.

bcrl 2y ago
Even Amazon's Textract API has issues with common invoices I've received. It Would Be Nice(tm) if this were a solved problem, but it isn't yet. Several other SaaS build on top of Textract and claim to do better, but the costs were unreasonable for the quantities of invoices I was processing compared to munging the raw data from Textract.
- thegabriele 2y ago
  What others SaaS? Thanks
  - bcrl 2y ago
    Sadly, I did not keep the notes on what I had found when I did the research. What turned me off of those services was that my out of pocket expense was going to be thousands of dollars to process around 1600 invoices. With AWS Textract the OCRed invoices cost under $20. I also tried the various open source OCR tools, but the error rate was way too high. Obivious faults like l or I in place of 1 in the middle of numbers. AWS Textract was pretty good with numbers, although it did stutter on the dates in a few invoices. For most of the invoices I was able to self-check the results as account balances and totals from month to month had to match. That made the end results from messy scripts extracting to CSV reasonably trustworthy.
    - thegabriele 2y ago
      Did you try the Azure "invoice model" AI Document ?
      - jazzyjackson 2y ago
        Thanks for mentioning this, I hadn't come across it yet.
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rcarmo 2y ago
What do you mean by complex? You create a service, deploy a model out of the catalog, and grab the endpoint. Takes me 5 minutes, and I know that those API calls go to a dedicated tenant at the location I specify.
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  "The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.CognitiveServices'." I don't know man, I'm sure it's simpler than I think, my biggest hurdle with Azure is that it's not clear to me what's included in my license, in the region I'm operating in etc. For example the AI Model Builder is not available to me, I don't know if cognitive services should be. I haven't taken any training tho, not complaining just expressing that it's intimidating.

bcrl 2y ago

Even Amazon's Textract API has issues with common invoices I've received. It Would Be Nice(tm) if this were a solved problem, but it isn't yet. Several other SaaS build on top of Textract and claim to do better, but the costs were unreasonable for the quantities of invoices I was processing compared to munging the raw data from Textract.

thegabriele 2y ago
What others SaaS? Thanks
- bcrl 2y ago
  Sadly, I did not keep the notes on what I had found when I did the research. What turned me off of those services was that my out of pocket expense was going to be thousands of dollars to process around 1600 invoices. With AWS Textract the OCRed invoices cost under $20. I also tried the various open source OCR tools, but the error rate was way too high. Obivious faults like l or I in place of 1 in the middle of numbers. AWS Textract was pretty good with numbers, although it did stutter on the dates in a few invoices. For most of the invoices I was able to self-check the results as account balances and totals from month to month had to match. That made the end results from messy scripts extracting to CSV reasonably trustworthy.
  - thegabriele 2y ago
    Did you try the Azure "invoice model" AI Document ?
    - jazzyjackson 2y ago
      Thanks for mentioning this, I hadn't come across it yet.

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rcarmo 2y ago

What do you mean by complex? You create a service, deploy a model out of the catalog, and grab the endpoint. Takes me 5 minutes, and I know that those API calls go to a dedicated tenant at the location I specify.

jazzyjackson 2y ago
"The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.CognitiveServices'." I don't know man, I'm sure it's simpler than I think, my biggest hurdle with Azure is that it's not clear to me what's included in my license, in the region I'm operating in etc. For example the AI Model Builder is not available to me, I don't know if cognitive services should be. I haven't taken any training tho, not complaining just expressing that it's intimidating.