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Pulling structured fields such as prices, areas and dates out of web pages and PDFs with language models in the loop.
A dev.to write-up swaps the single assertion for per-field hit rates with 95 percent intervals over repeated trials. On its own example table, the pair it calls a real regression has intervals that overlap by 0.3 points.
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Nine local VLM configurations read the same 23 handwritten clinical pages against 221 hand-curated gold values, and accuracy on the fields accepted without human review rose from 75% to 96% once a second model started checking the first.
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Ten Coves Capital led $22 million into Luminary, whose platform reads estate documents for advisers overseeing more than $500 billion in client assets. Human reviewers still check what the AI extracts.
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AWS's tutorial builds an RFI questionnaire automation in seven steps, from an S3 action connector to an import into production. When the workbook format changes, the documented fix is to edit the instructions.
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The pooled 17% belongs to a table with a 40% outlier in it, so the part that transfers is the scoring rule: a mechanical null check against fields someone has verified are missing, plus a blank-rate column to keep it honest.
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A dev.to argument for lifting numbers out of documents by pattern before the model ever sees them rests on a cost asymmetry between gaps and wrong digits, and on a schema guarantee that covers shape rather than truth.
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