Mailbag: Parsing Fields from PDFs—When to Use Machine Learning?
Read OriginalA developer seeks guidance on whether to implement machine learning for parsing quote numbers from PDFs, where occasional typos cause errors. The article advises that a 99% success rate is already good and suggests using techniques like Levenshtein distance for text matching and flagging ambiguous cases for human review, rather than immediately jumping to a full ML solution.
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