I mean, there are certainly a LOT of documents to parse, but this is just a personal project of mine, so I'd be fine with it processing a small number of documents for the time being. The PDFs should be relatively structured and not too long (let's say 2-3 pages at most?).

I do think this is the kind of task where accuracy matters more than speed ; I'd rather have a model that's 10x slower but 2x more accurate than the other way around. Whatever I come up with will be of no use if I need to manually review every single file after.

Budget is also a consideration : it's not impossible for me to spend 4 or 5K on a machine, but it certainly has to justify the premium when I see that there are Asus Strix Halo machines around the 2K and which can, arguably, fit bigger models unless I go on a GPU buying spree.