Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Digital Digging with Henk van Ess

Chatbot Gets Reading Glasses

Breakthrough: PDFs lose their invisibility cloak

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Henk van Ess
Nov 11, 2024
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Claude, one of the leading AI chatbots, has gained the ability to see what's inside PDFs. And I don't mean just reading text - I mean actually seeing charts, graphs and diagrams, so visual information. Why is this a game-changer for researchers?

As someone who spend my days digging through documents looking for needles in bureaucratic haystacks with t…

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