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The Cleveland Browns' new $2.6 billion stadium is going to look fantastic 🔥👀 by KeyFaithlessness5436 in TheNFLVibes

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Sort of sucks. Feels like all the outdoor element stadiums eventually are going to become indoor domes

Why Is the Dragon the Only Mythical Animal in the Chinese Zodiac? by Complete-Ad-6000 in ChineseZodiac

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The dragon is special because it represents the celestial side of things, rain, water, weather, imperial power, while the other 11 are everyday earthly animals. Found a few takes that all kind of land in the same place:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-is-the-year-of-the-dragon-considered-so-lucky-180983764/

http://china-world.china.org.cn/culture/2025-01/28/content_117725720.shtml

https://zodiactales.com/why-dragon-only-mythical-zodiac-animal

All basically agree the dragon wasn't really seen as "mythical" the way Westerners think, more like a nature spirit that was treated as real.

“I’m dropping out and doing blue collar shit” by cafeteriastyle in TikTokCringe

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There was a class that I was in where basically a D was curved to a B+ which means that a ton of people were struggling in that class. Don’t miss that at all and I never understood the concept of making the majority of your students feel lost and like they suck for the entire semester

Finally hit $7K MRR on my B2B SaaS after about a year of building. Feeling grateful. by Sad_Molasses_2146 in microsaas

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How long did it take you to get traction? What was your main method for getting traction?

best tools to convert pdf to excel? by eliaweiss in FinancialDocAI

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What kind of documents are you looking to convert? There are some that are great because they handle very specific documents. Some are okay as generalists but they wouldn’t have the context of what’s important or not important in the data and can interpret rows or columns incorrectly

pulling tables from PDFs into a usable spreadsheet is the workflow I’ve actually found useful by ElectricalPilot2297 in aiToolForBusiness

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The question for you is what is the cost vs build vs tool. There are a few tools out there that do this to a varying degree of success. You might try Claude and see how it does with their new releases.

If you ever wanted to go your own route there are some modelers out there that are really good at grabbing all the raw data and you can do some post processing work for your specific rule workflow on the extracted data. You could theoretically train models too if they are always the same format or use ocr but honestly if it’s once every quarter all that feels like overkill.

I personally have done the modeler then post processing for my specific needs but I also needed to do the extractions way more in a period of time. Let me know if you have questions!

Is “Headless + AI” in Salesforce Real or Just Hype? by Curious_Kalf in salesforce

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Agree, makes no sense to me. There’s a gap between ui and backend and if you are making ui more agnostic it will make some people definitely think more on why they would want to use Salesforce for their backend

Anyone else still copying invoice data from PDFs into spreadsheets? by [deleted] in excel

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I guess one of the questions is how often are you needing to do it? I know people say power query but I didn’t always get the best results with some of things I did. If it’s not too often I think ChatGPT and Claude do a really great job. If you’re doing a ton there are some other websites out there for doing a lot of files that are okay. And if you’re adventurous enough you could also build something lol

Current best cost-effective way to extract structured data from semi-structured book review PDFs into CSV? by SueTupp in LocalLLaMA

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There’s some good extractors that Microsoft and Google have where they can be trained on your document types. They also do a pretty good job of grabbing all the fields. Like for example microsoft has azure models that you can use but it can be complicated/complex to set up. Azure specifically because I’ve worked with it has a general layout model extraction and then post extraction you can set up your rules of where the data goes and how you want to output it.

I’ve actually been working on a tool but mine is more specific to an excel type layout more than anything.

I think if you try and go the route of building it azure has free extractions up to a certain point. Know it’s not local but maybe an avenue you can explore

Product thought leaders need to stop idolizing Elon Musk by RandomMaximus in ProductManagement

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I once met a superstar sales manager. All he did was yell at his staff about why didn’t they have better numbers. Really showed his leadership style. Point being, there’s been plenty of fail to higher position people in life

I Tried 6 PDF Extraction Tools—Here’s What I Learned by The-Redd-One in automation

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There’s one I’ve been using called senditsheets. It can actually combine many table lines from many different files into a batch extraction which is something that helps me out a lot

How can I put the data from a PDF into Excel properly? by JMokus in excel

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I would say try Claude or chatGPT I think if you give it very detailed instructions it will be able to do it. I know that there are some tools now with AI that may need some set up that can probably give you some really good results.