Hacker News
new
top
best
ask
show
job
Don't read the PDF, write the parser
(
adriacidre.com
)
2 points
by
kumulo
2 hours ago
1 comment
kumulo
2 hours ago
Author here. Worth flagging: this pays back because public hospital reports use the same handful of layouts for years. For a long tail of one-off document types, vision is probably the right call — the parser write cost wouldn't amortize.