I played around a lot with several python libs to read and extract text from unstructured PDF files. My special use case is, that i need, as a preprocessing step, a library to understand complex tables but also normal chapters like a cover with important data from the same PDF file. Tables can have a list of data in it or again tables -> unstructured data made by humans. In a next step i can create embeddings of it and store them in a vector database (to work with a model with it later) - but this is not the problem of this post. After a lot of failed tryouts with "normal" python libraries, i found the library from https://unstructured.io. It helps me a lot to keep the content of tables semantically together to be able to execute search on it later. But i am quiete unsure, if i am on the right track or if there is some other, easier technique to work with such PDF files. Also, i am sure that a lot of AI apps have similar requirements like these - what do you think?

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Hi everyone, I am a full stack web developer from Germany with over 20 years of experience in this field. I am happy to join this AI forum and learn more about AI and its tools and how to use them in product development. I need AI in my case since the product that I am planning requires the ability to read and understand documents and to be able to run AI locally. I'm looking forward to sharing with other developers and learning from their experiences. btw. - is there anyone else from germany?