JOURNAL

Notes from the build.

How we design and ship production AI systems — the architecture decisions, trade-offs, and lessons from real work. Written for engineers and the teams who hire them.

May 26, 20269 min read
Reading scanned PDFs with vision models: building a production LLM content pipeline
How we built an automated pipeline that turns hundreds of messy documents a day — including scanned PDFs — into ranked, deduplicated digests, using vision LLMs for OCR, a clustering layer, and a provider-agnostic model abstraction.
AILLMVision OCRRAGArchitecture

Notes from the build.

Reading scanned PDFs with vision models: building a production LLM content pipeline