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Sensible: Hybrid Document Extraction for Production

Company blog · sensible.so/blog · on HN as dwyningsaidata

Sensible: Hybrid Document Extraction for Production is the company blog at sensible.so, writing about ai and data. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The History of the PDF [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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17mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts cover the history of the PDF format. The comments only correct or supply the link, so they say nothing about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Sensible combines AI extraction with deterministic rules so document data comes out clean and audit-ready, even on your worst PDFs.

The author on HN?

dwynings · 16,818 karma · member since 2009

I am Dru Wynings. http://druwynings.com Feel free to email me about anything: dru@druwynings.com Head of Marketing @ Sensible.so. Previously Head of Marketing and Business Development at Diffbot (http://www.diffbot.com/), BizDev @ Heyzap (YC W09). Self-taught programmer & designer. @druwynings

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The History of the PDF [pdf]
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-30
  2. Solving direct text extraction from PDFs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
  3. History of the PDF
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Sensible | Technical Product Marketing Manager | Remote | Full-time | https://www.sensible.so/ Sensible is an API-first document processing platform that streamlines data extraction for developers and product teams. We're looking for an experienced Product Marketer to join our growing team. As a product marketer, you will lead core product marketing initiatives, build awareness with our target market, and generate i…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”
  2. Submitted Solving direct text extraction from PDFs as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. Sensible | Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE | https://sensible.so/ Sensible connects software to the messy, unstructured data that businesses encounter every day. Our goal is to bring about a world where computers do the work that computers are best at (processing large volumes of data) so that humans can do what humans are best at (critical thinking and empathy). The first piece of this problem t…

    Comment linking /about

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”
  4. Submitted How to use GPT-3 to parse free-text documents as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://www.sensible.so/ Full disclosure: I'm an employee

    Comment linking /

    on “Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet”
  6. Submitted History of the PDF as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Also available as a PDF if you're interested: https://www.sensible.so/history-of-the-pdf-pdf

    Comment linking /history-of-the-pdf-pdf

    on “History of the PDF”
  8. Submitted How to scale document question answering using LLMs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Thanks! I've changed to that from https://www.sensible.so/history-of-the-pdf-pdf above.

    Comment linking /history-of-the-pdf-pdf

    on “The History of the PDF [pdf]”
  10. Submitted Direct Text Extraction from PDFs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Here’s a link that works: https://www.sensible.so/blog/history-of-the-pdf

    Comment linking /blog/history-of-the-pdf

    on “The History of the PDF [pdf]”
  12. Submitted Sensible.so makes documents as accessible to software as APIs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Beyond embeddings: Navigating the shift to completions-only RAG as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Scaling document question answering using LLMs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Enterprise AI, driverless cars, and the road to AI adoption as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted The History of the PDF [pdf] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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