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Three practical approaches to extracting structured data from PDFs into JSON: regex on raw text, template-based extraction, and AI-powered extraction with code for each.
Build an automated invoice processing pipeline that turns raw transaction data into branded PDF invoices. Complete working example with HTML template and API integration.
A practical guide to PDF OCR: how to check if a PDF actually needs OCR, Tesseract vs cloud APIs, and when you should skip OCR entirely by generating PDFs with real text layers.
The hidden costs of cobbling together Puppeteer, pdfcpu, and Ghostscript for PDF tasks. How a single API replaces your entire PDF toolchain.
An honest comparison of AWS Textract, Google Document AI, Adobe PDF Extract, and open-source alternatives for PDF text extraction in 2026.