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Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

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1303 points serjester | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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twelve40 ◴[05 Feb 25 23:11 UTC] No.42956704[source]▶
Isn't it amazing how one company invented a universally spread format that takes structured data from an editor (except images obviously) and converts it into a completely fucked-up unstructured form that then requires expensive voodoo magic to convert back into structured data.
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1. shermantanktop ◴[05 Feb 25 23:28 UTC] No.42956872[source]▶
is "put this glyph at coordinate (x,y)" really what you'd call "structured"?
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2. dkjaudyeqooe ◴[06 Feb 25 01:01 UTC] No.42957640[source]▶
He's calling PDFs unstructured: structured editors -> unstructured PDF -> structured data
3. irjustin ◴[06 Feb 25 04:27 UTC] No.42959081[source]▶
It's not the structure that allows meaningful understanding.

Something that was clearly a table now becomes a bunch of glphy's physically close to eachother vs a group of other glphys but when considered as a group is a box visually separated from another group of glphys but actually part of a table.