Comment by williamdclt
10 hours ago
The parent says
> that information is buried in PDFs sent by schools (often not standardized).
I don't think OCR will help you there.
An LLM can help, but _trusting_ it is irresponsible. Use it to help a human quickly find the grade in the PDF, don't expect it to always get it right.
Don't most jobs do OCR on the resumes sent in for employment? I get that a resume is a more standard format. Maybe that's the rub
The challenge here is that it's not just OCR for extracting text from a resume, this is about extracting grades from school transcripts. That's a LOT harder, see this excellent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581480