Re:Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
by jimstr on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:05PM
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What Open AI api are you using to read PDFs?
Re:Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
by fragmede on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:07PM
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There are a few in the plugin store. The three I see on the "popular" page are Ai PDF, AskYourPDF, and ChatWithPDF .
Not sure how to access that via API.
Re:Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
by mike_hearn on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:49PM
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I translated PDFs to text using PDFbox, not AI. The AI extracts the needed information from the resulting pile of unformatted text.
Re:Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
by pylua on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:57PM
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1) what if it makes a mistake, and you get audited ? Could this be construed as negligent ?
Re:Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
by mike_hearn on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:48AM
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The outcome is easy to check manually using the tool, my company isn't huge.
As for mistakes, that can happen with human processes too. Tax authorities are used to that possibility. Reconciliation is tedious and error prone. AI can do a better job than humans. Certainly the motivation for me to do it is to reduce the round-tripping between me and my accountant where he points out I've forgotten to submit things.
1. I've written a program that reconciles all my invoices against bank/cc transactions at the end of each quarter. My accountant otherwise has to do this by hand. It uses OpenAI's APIs to read the PDFs, parse out the invoicing party and amount(s), and as a fallback when classical NLP fails to parse dates.
2. I used GPT-4 to help write that tool using https://aider.chat/
3. I use Copilot to assist as well.
Originally I tried to use GPT-4 to do the reconciliation as well, but that was not successful. What worked better was getting it to write me a first cut fuzzy algorithm and then taking it from there.