Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #4] - A diagnostic across PDFs and questions, and a map of the techniques the rest of the series will cover The post From Regex to Vision Models: Which RAG Technique Fits Which Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5nonies] - Nature, plan, execute, synthesize: closing brick 1 with a dispatcher that reads each PDF’s nature and picks the method that fits, fitz, Docling, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, MinerU or Surya, then folds the outputs into one corpus The post Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5ter] - Table cells, OCR, captions, headings: cloud-grade structure, running on your own machine.
By Kezhan Shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9A] - Same paper, same question as Article 1.
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5A] - Document signals (metadata, native TOC, source software) and page-level content (text vs scans, tables, images, columns, page profile) The post Beyond extract_text: The Two Layers of a PDF That Drive RAG Quality appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Kezhan Shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5sexies] - image_df tells you where every picture is.
By Kezhan Shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #10A] - The escalation cascade and the free, deterministic checks that flag a failed parse before you pay for a deeper one The post Loop Engineering with Adaptive PDF Parsing: Start Cheap, Pay for a Heavier Parser Only When the Page Needs It appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5quinquies] - Same 1974 scanned PDF, two engines.
By Kezhan Shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #1] The smallest version of RAG that actually works, on a real PDF, with grounded answers and the source lines highlighted.
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5B] - One PDF in, a relational set of DataFrames out: lines, pages, TOC, images, cross-references, captions, spans, and a parsing summary The post Stop Returning Flat Text from a PDF: The Relational Shape RAG Needs appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Kezhan Shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5B] - One PDF in, a relational set of DataFrames out: lines, pages, TOC, images, cross-references, captions, spans, and a parsing summary The post Stop Returning Flat Text from a PDF: The Relational Tables RAG Needs appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Kezhan Shi
Getting reliable, readable responses out of your LLM, and knowing which tool to reach for The post Structured Outputs with LLMs: JSON Mode, Function Calling, and When to Use Each appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Maria Mouschoutzi