NLP and data science could be so easy if all of our data came as clean and plain text. But in practice, a lot of it is hidden away in PDFs, Word documen…

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In this talk, discover a modular approach to document understanding using state-of-the-art models and Python tools. Learn to convert PDFs to structured data, build custom information extraction pipelines, and use OCR for image-based text. Practical examples feature spaCy and the new Docling library.

Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text