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Simon Willison Emerging AI Innovations Apr 23

Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web

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The author describes a browser-based implementation of LiteParse, a tool for extracting text from PDFs using spatial parsing heuristics. The tool helps maintain text order in complex layouts and can be used to enhance RAG-style Q&A with visual citations.

Why it matters Edge-based, high-fidelity document parsing signals a shift toward localized, privacy-preserving data extraction for LLM-driven workflows.
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