Author's): Eivind Kjosbakken
Originally published in Towards Artificial Intelligence.
Learn how to extract important information from documents
Documents contain a huge amount of important information. However, in many cases this information is hidden deep in the content of documents and is therefore difficult to use for further tasks. In this article, I'll discuss how to consistently extract metadata from documents, taking into account metadata extraction approaches and the challenges you'll encounter along the way.

The article provides a general overview of performing metadata extraction from documents, discussing its importance for downstream tasks, various methodologies including Regex, OCR + LLM and vision LLM. Addresses the challenges of metadata extraction, such as handling visual information and long documents, highlighting the potential benefits and growing importance of the LLM vision in this field.
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