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GPT-4o did an amazing job at the extraction of line items, but I had to do a heuristic layer on top to break up the PDFs into small chunks so the output didn’t overflow
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In the thread “GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence”
Helped: GPT-4o extraction of line items from complex PDF invoices.
Got in the way: Output overflow required heuristic layer to break PDFs into small chunks.
… I did a project to summarize complex PDF invoices (not “unstructured” data, but “idiosyncratically structured” data, as each vendor has a completely different format). GPT-4o did an amazing job at the extraction of line items, but I had to do a heuristic layer on top to break up the PDFs into small chunks so the output didn’t overflow.