On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 01:18:22PM -0000, Greg wrote: > His question isn't complex, though. He has *this* PDF from which he > wants to extract *that* data so that it is readily exploitable, legible, > presentable, etc. If that isn't it, then the fault lies with him, not us.
Oh boy, you have just described a problem space that keeps lots of experts occupied in their jobs for years. Just getting "data" from an basically unstructured PDF and turning them into something a statistics program or database can make sense of is a whole job of its own. > To be frank, given the question, he'd be significantly better off just > asking one of the robots, where you can upload PDFs, than here, where > people go off in any direction and seem to have permanent chips on > their shoulders. Your understanding of this problem space and mine differ. I think this is complex. I think there are no easy shortcuts to this. Asking a LLM might actually a good idea, but probably not a 100% solution. /ralph
