@VikParuchuri: JATS conversion is a huge pain point that slows down science - costs dollars *per page*, and takes weeks. We can do it …
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Datalab is releasing a new processor that converts PDFs to JATS XML, reducing cost to cents per page and time to under 5 minutes with 92.6% accuracy in a human-matched benchmark.
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JATS conversion is a huge pain point that slows down science - costs dollars per page, and takes weeks. We can do it for cents per page in less than 5 minutes, at close to human accuracy.
Our pipeline scores 92.6% in our human-matched benchmark (more on this next week).
Another slop benchmark - this time from LlamaIndex. If you fix a couple of glaring bugs in their scoring, Datalab goes from 65% to 93.6%.
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