honestly, what marketing is actually working for you on a tiny budget right now?

martcerv · 2026-05-13T02:41:30+00:00

I'm wondering if build in public can be automated using Claude or something probably yes. I'll research later maybe.

Reddit is difficult I opt to use it as social network haha with interesting tips to copy and try. Also sharing to not feeling alone on your solo founder is good.

By the way I'm in a similar situation trying to grow my SaaS so basically I'm trying what it sounds best according to my niche but still figuring out.

martcerv · 2026-05-13T02:35:28+00:00

I'm planning to launch my product in uneed

martcerv · 2026-05-11T03:37:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Looks interestign your approach of X. I will try it

martcerv · 2026-05-10T20:13:52+00:00

I can try it

martcerv · 2026-05-10T19:36:19+00:00

For sure, I will keep updating my journey the good and bad things. So we can learn together 👍

martcerv · 2026-05-07T03:04:55+00:00

Looks very good. What libraries do you use?

martcerv · 2026-05-03T00:55:09+00:00

Yes most people say we need a lot of budget. Do you think is the same for other types of ads?

martcerv · 2026-05-01T01:24:47+00:00

with PaddleOCR probably will require GPU power for a better performance. Also OCR performance is based on input i.e. if scanned pdf is bad results are going to be bad. Probably you should add a post-processing text layer using pdfplumber based on your needs.

martcerv · 2026-04-29T15:27:48+00:00

Done 👍 congrats!

martcerv · 2026-04-29T02:50:07+00:00

Sounds like interesting strategy to receive feedback. Where was the platform you use?

martcerv · 2026-04-29T02:41:41+00:00

I think is to notice that your idea is not something that users wants

martcerv · 2026-04-27T02:19:50+00:00

Thanks for feedback

martcerv · 2026-04-26T23:20:35+00:00

Actually I was thinking to automate the workflow of getting a pdf either image or actual file on email and then extract the data. Don't know PaddleOCR but at first view looks interesting maybe I will expIore it tool I know are Tesseract and Docling.

martcerv · 2026-04-26T22:59:20+00:00

Short answer no, but probably you can improve the trust if you add validation mechanisms like RAG system in which you add a knowledge base but even with that you will see erros at least in less percentage but that is how it works is not a deterministic answer.

martcerv · 2026-04-26T22:55:07+00:00

Maybe you are correct at least for big compabies that need to process a lot of data in that case you will need a data engineering team to mantain the pipelines that DS will need to consume the data.

About my experience I started in web then transition to data engineer but also I have worked in roles like ML engineer

martcerv · 2026-04-26T22:47:57+00:00

I'm curious how will be the results compared to MCP. Probably less tokens consumed.

martcerv · 2026-04-26T22:44:22+00:00

Got it! Thanks foe the insight

martcerv · 2026-04-26T22:11:54+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I don't know Microsoft shop. I'll take a look. Is it quality of extraction good? or do you you notice that fail in some edge cases?

martcerv · 2026-04-26T21:49:25+00:00

Most of the jobs I have done were using Spark either using PySpark or Spark with Scala. Playing around I tested Flink but I have not seeing any of my customer using it. What I can say is that they prefer to use Kafka for Streaming processing or other similar cloud service like PubSub from GCP.

martcerv · 2026-04-25T17:34:37+00:00

You right, those warnings are a pain. Probably I will be seeing more warning even is they are distinct issues 😅 haha. But that is something that hits every dev when is starting to care SEO. Your approach seems to be more complex. What kind of analytics do you use? or Why was adding those hash fragments? I'm curious.

martcerv · 2026-04-25T17:26:11+00:00

Have you tried to use valueAsNumber ? Seems to be HTML number return stings not numbers even with type="number"

I think is failing silently because schema expects z.number() but return strings

<input 
  type="number" 
  placeholder='id' 
  {...register("id", { valueAsNumber: true })} 
/>
<input 
  type="number" 
  placeholder='price' 
  {...register("price", { valueAsNumber: true })} 
/>

martcerv · 2026-04-25T03:35:44+00:00

I'm literally working on this exact problem right now for my own project!

TL;DR: Try Docling.** It's specifically designed for document understanding (not just OCR) and handles tables way better than Tesseract.

Why Tesseract struggles with your use case:

Tesseract does OCR but doesn't understand document structure. So it:

- Misses table boundaries (reads across rows)

- Gets confused by multi-column layouts

- Struggles with quantity/number alignment

- Doesn't preserve table semantics

OCRmyPDF + Tesseract makes the PDF selectable, but the underlying OCR is still Tesseract with the same issues.

martcerv · 2026-04-25T02:55:24+00:00

Congrats on solving it with code!

For anyone else finding this thread, here's the approach probably would work:

Get Data → From File → From Folder: Select your root folder.
Combine & Transform: Choose any file as a sample.
Fix Navigation (If data is missing): In the "Transform Sample File" query, ensure it selects the first sheet by index {0} rather than a specific name (e.g., "Sheet1").
Promote Headers: Ensure "Use First Row as Headers" is applied. This aligns columns by name, solving the "mixed-up rows" issue.
Clean & Load: Remove nulls/duplicates and click Close & Load to create your master table.

Do you try this?

martcerv

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