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Document AI

Document Processing in Production: Why Every Platform Breaks at 60%
Part 1

Document Processing in Production: Why Every Platform Breaks at 60%

Every vendor demo hits 95% accuracy. Deploy on real documents and it drops to 60%. Here's what breaks, why, and the hybrid pipeline that fixes it.

PDF Table Extraction: Why Structure Recognition Breaks
Part 2

PDF Table Extraction: Why Structure Recognition Breaks

PDF table extraction breaks on merged cells, borderless layouts, and cross-page tables. The detection-then-structure pipeline we built to fix it.

LLM vs OCR Pipeline: Why the Answer Is Both
Part 3

LLM vs OCR Pipeline: Why the Answer Is Both

Multimodal LLMs understand document layout but hallucinate numbers. OCR extracts exact text but misses structure. The hybrid architecture that gets both right.