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Developer asks if ML is needed for 99% accurate PDF data extraction

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A developer inquired about using machine learning to improve PDF data extraction, specifically for handling misspellings and typos in quote numbers that cause extraction failures. The author advised against using ML, suggesting that deterministic logic like Levenshtein distance for word matching and careful database lookups would be more efficient and simpler. The author emphasized that achieving 100% accuracy is not always necessary, and the current 99% recall rate is already a strong performance. AI

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Developer asks if ML is needed for 99% accurate PDF data extraction

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