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Sample outputTitle: Attention Is All You Need Abstract The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. 1. Introduction Recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory and gated recurrent neural networks in particular, have been firmly established as state of the art approaches in sequence modeling and transduction problems such as language modeling and machine translation [...] — extracted from Vaswani et al., "Attention Is All You Need" (2017)
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Research papers
Pull text out of PDF papers — abstracts, body, citations — in extractable form for notes, summaries, or downstream analysis.
Slide decks
Conference talks, training decks, sales presentations — get all the slide content as text without retyping.
Scanned pages
Book pages, receipts, contracts, clear handwritten notes — readable, searchable text from any photo or scan.
Screenshots
Articles, social posts, error messages, dashboards — turn any screenshot into copyable, searchable text.
Multi-column docs
Newspapers, legal filings, scientific journals — column order preserved correctly, no scrambled output.
Foreign-language docs
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Thai — non-Latin scripts are extracted as text, not transliterated.
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Why this beats basic OCR
Legacy OCR
- Garbled output on tilted scans
- Multi-column docs come back scrambled
- Handwriting comes back as gibberish
- No structure — just a wall of text
AI vision (Claude + OpenAI)
- Reads scans and phone photos of printed pages
- Reading order preserved across columns
- Reads clear handwriting and mixed scripts
- Structured .json with sections and headings
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