Document AI

5 pieces on Document AI, including 1 step-by-step guide.

Guides

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Shan • 2026-10-11
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Run an LLM Locally to Interact with Your Documents: Complete Ollama & Open WebUI Guide

Build a completely offline, zero-leakage local document intelligence system using Ollama, Open WebUI, and nomic-embed-text with custom chunking and system prompt engineering.

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News & Analysis

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Shan • 2026-09-08
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Reducto r-1 Cuts Document Parsing Cost to 1¢ Per Page With Single-Pass Model

Reducto r-1 replaces a 4-stage agentic OCR pipeline with one full-page pass, cutting price from 3–6¢ to 1¢ and reporting 20% fewer errors.

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Shan • 2026-09-03
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Cohere Parse 5: 2.3B-Parameter VLM Beats Gemini 3 Flash on ParseBench

Cohere's Parse 5 scores 79.2 on ParseBench, outperforming Mistral OCR and Gemini 3 Flash with a 2.3B-parameter VLM that outputs Markdown plus bounding boxes.

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OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide
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Shan • 2026-08-09
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OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, whose product converts prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations, with the team now working on ChatGPT.

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Shan • 2026-06-21
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Chandra OCR 2 Shows How Fast Open-Source Document AI Is Catching Up

Datalab's Chandra OCR 2 is pushing open-source OCR past legacy parsers with stronger layout, math, table, and multilingual performance.

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