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folli on March 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price

Hijacking this thread: what's currently the cheapest way to get structured data out of a PDF?

I assume there's some reasonable tool out there to convert PDFs to Markup and than feed it to some LLM API with okay costs (Gemini? DeepSeek?). Any suggestions?

dar8919 on March 17, 2025 | [–]

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr , recent release. Its been a step function improvement for my pipelines

malshe on March 16, 2025 | [–]

I’m feeding pdfs directly to Gemini to extract tables and so far the results are pretty good. There was a post on HN a few days ago about using Gemini for this task.

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