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0 pointsthrowaway44967mo ago0 comments

No model can do better on images than structured data. I am not sure if I am on crack or you're all talking nonsense.

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You are assuming structure where there is none. It's not the crack, it's the lack of experience with PDF from diverse sources. Just for instance, I had a period where I was _regularly_ working with PDF files with the letters in reverse order, each letter laid out individually (not a single complete word in the file).

throwaway4496OP7mo ago

You're thinking "rendering structured data" means parsing PDF as text. That is just wrong. Carefully read what I said. You render the PDF, but into structured data rather than raster. If you still get letters in reverse when you render your PDF into structured data, your rendering engine is broken.

dotancohen7mo ago

How do you render into structured data, from disparate letters that are not structured?

  D10
  E1
  H0
  L2,3,9
  O4,7
  R8
  W6

I'm sure that you could look at that and figure out how to structure it. But I highly doubt that you have a general-purpose computer program that can parse that into structured data, having never encountered such a format before. Yet, that is how many real-world PDF files are composed.

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dotancohen7mo ago

throwaway4496OP7mo ago

dotancohen7mo ago

How do you render into structured data, from disparate letters that are not structured?

  D10
  E1
  H0
  L2,3,9
  O4,7
  R8
  W6

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