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Jerry Liu
@jerryjliu0
Parsing the world's hardest PDFs @llama_index. cofounder/CEO Careers: Enterprise:
Joined September 2011
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Every enterprise organization receives and generates a massive volume of contracts. Each contract oftentimes follows a non-standardized template. The difficulty extends beyond simply digitalizing the document (OCR) to actually semantically interpreting the meaning of each term and clause. There are references between sections and to amendments. It is non-trivial to use LLMs to make sense of this information both at high accuracy and also in a cost-effective manner (e.g. you can't run Fable/Opus on every page). We see a massive opportunity to provide well-tuned document extraction workflows that can both digitalize and reason across contracts to power production systems at scale. This is courtesy of our Extract feature in LlamaParse. Check out our blog: If you have Extract use cases, come chat:
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Contracts are where business commitments live, but most organizations still manage them manually, searching PDFs for renewal dates, chasing down payment terms, and hoping nothing slips through the cracks. The problem isn't just volume. Legacy OCR treats contracts like flat text, unable to interpret what it reads: the same payment term appears under three different headings, renewal conditions are buried mid-paragraph, and termination clauses span multiple amendments. We wrote up how LlamaParse solves this by: ✅️ Preserving document hierarchy ✅️ Using semantic reasoning to identify key fields regardless of how they're drafted ✅️ Mapping everything into validated, schema-aligned output Ultimately, it transforms contracts from flat PDF text into structured data your downstream systems can actually use. Read the full breakdown here:
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