Comment by disgruntledphd2
3 days ago
> AWS Textract to first get the structure of the document (PDF). These tools are incredibly robust and do a great job with most of the common cases you can throw at it.
Do they work for Bills of Lading yet? When I tested a sample of these bills a few years back (2022 I think), the results were not good at all. But I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they'd massively improved lately.
Have not used in on your docs but I can say that it definitely works well with forms and forms with tables like a Bill of Lading. It costs extra but you need to turn on table extract (at least in AWS). You then can get a markdown representation of that page include table, you can of course pull out the table itself but unless its standardized you will need the middleman LLM figuring out the exact data/structure you are looking for.
Huh, interesting. I'll have to try again next time I need to parse stuff like this.