Your LLM Isn't a Document Pipeline
There's a moment in every AI project where the demo looks so good that your brain quietly starts deleting code. You watch a model "read" a bank statement and think: this is it. We can skip OCR. We can skip layout parsing. Maybe we can skip half the pipeline. In the movie version, someone presses Enter and JSON waterfalls out of the cloud.
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Greg T
Sep 21, 2025
PDFs Are For People, Not For Data
We love PDFs. They look the same on every device, they print beautifully at any size, and they’re the closest thing we have to digital paper. But every time someone on our team says "let’s just extract the data from the PDF," we feel an ancient PostScript daemon wake up and whisper: “I was born to paint pixels, not to structure your rows.”
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Greg T
Sep 20, 2025