Document Review With Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev
Separate uncertain readings from implausible values with source evidence, typed Jev questions, and a prescription walkthrough.
Unsiloed Leads ChartParse-Bench in Chart Extraction Accuracy
Charts hold decision-critical numbers that most parsers reshape or drop. We present the Unsiloed chart parsing pipeline and ChartParse-Bench, a 58-chart benchma…
Adnan AbbasSeptember 2, 2026
Unsiloed Achieves #1 Rank on olmOCR-Bench
Published by Unsiloed AI | May 2026 Introduction Optical Character Recognition (OCR) remains the foundation of any document AI pipeline. Whether you are extract…
Adnan AbbasMay 20, 2026
Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Fable 5
Claude Sonnet 5 is pitched as a cheaper, near-Opus coding model. I put it head-to-head with Fable 5 on two real tasks: a browser Clash Royale game and a RAG deb…
Are LLMs Good Enough for Document Extraction in 2026?
Frontier LLMs can read a PDF, but reading one and being trusted with it are two different things. Here's where a raw LLM is good enough, where a dedicated docum…
Which Document Extraction API Can You Actually Trust?
We ran the same finance and medical documents through six extraction APIs and scored every result with checks you can rerun. The values agreed more than the con…
Loss Run Data Extraction: Turn Insurance Reports Into Structured JSON
How to extract every claim from a multi-page loss run report into JSON with Python and the Unsiloed API, one page per request, then check each claim and policy …
Aman MishraOctober 13, 2026
Bank Statement Data Extraction: Extract Transactions and Validate Balances With Python
How to build a bank statement parser with Python and the Unsiloed API: extract every transaction to JSON, check running balances and totals against the statemen…
Aman MishraOctober 8, 2026
ACORD 25 Data Extraction: Turn Certificates of Insurance Into Validated JSON
How to get an ACORD 25 certificate of liability insurance into validated JSON with Python and the Unsiloed API, using confidence scores to route fields to revie…
Aman MishraOctober 6, 2026
PDF to Markdown: Convert Documents Without Losing Headings and Tables
Convert PDF files to Markdown with a local Python script or the Unsiloed Parse API. Check headings, reading order, and table cells against the source before pro…
Aman MishraSeptember 30, 2026
Splitting a Multi-Document PDF Into Separate Files in Python
Choose the right boundary signal before splitting a multi-document PDF. This guide compares page ranges, bookmarks, and content-aware classification using pypdf…
Aman MishraSeptember 18, 2026
Build Handwritten Text Recognition in Python With TrOCR
Build a handwritten text recognition pipeline in Python with Microsoft TrOCR. Learn how the transformer architecture works, evaluate it with CER and WER, and pl…
Aman MishraSeptember 11, 2026
Why Generic Parsers Fail on High-Stakes Documents (September 2026)
Generic parsers can return plausible text while stripping the layout and domain relationships that give high-stakes documents meaning. Learn how domain-specific…
Aman MishraSeptember 10, 2026
Confidence-Scored KYC Document Verification Explained (September 2026)
Per-field confidence scores let KYC teams automate reliable document reads and route uncertain fields for review. Source citations give reviewers the exact pass…
Aman MishraSeptember 2, 2026
How to Build a Document Extraction Audit Trail That Compliance Teams Trust
A field citation is only one part of an audit trail. This guide shows how to combine source citations, calibrated confidence, extraction metadata, and reviewer …
Aman MishraAugust 28, 2026
Agentic Document Processing: Verify Before You Trust (July 2026)
OCR reads a value and passes it downstream; agentic document processing treats that value as a claim to verify first. Here is how confidence scores, bounding-bo…
Charts, Plots, and Figures: Getting Visual Data APIs Skip (July 2026)
Your parser can return clean text, neat chunks, and complete metadata while still missing the most important value on the page: the number inside a chart. That …
Aman MishraJuly 15, 2026
How to Make Any Scanned PDF Searchable (July 2026)
If your PDF came from a scanner, there's a good chance it's just an image wrapped in a PDF container: no searchable text, no selectable words, and no way to Ctr…
Aman MishraJuly 14, 2026
Claude Code + Codex as One Pipeline
Benchmarks, context-window behavior, token economics, and the MCP wiring for running Claude Code and OpenAI Codex as a single coding pipeline.
Confidence Score Reliability: The Missing Metric in Document Extraction
Most document extraction vendors sell you on accuracy. But the metric that determines whether you automate or just re-key is one they rarely talk about: confide…
Aman MishraApril 28, 2026
Why multi-page tables still break every extraction pipeline
Open a schedule of investments from any mid-sized fund's annual report. The table starts on page 12 and ends on page 17. It has 400+ rows, multi-level column he…
Aman MishraMarch 24, 2026
How to Use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to Accept Malformed JSON (March 2026 Guide)
If you've ever deployed code that works locally but explodes in production with use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON, you know the frustrati…
Aman MishraMarch 21, 2026
Why Section References in Contracts Fail After Chunking
A credit agreement clause reads: "The Borrower shall maintain a Debt Service Coverage Ratio of not less than 1.25:1.00, calculated in accordance with Section 1.…
Aman MishraMarch 5, 2026
What Is an Embedding in AI? A Technical Guide
Embeddings turn text, images, and other inputs into vectors that systems can compare by meaning. Learn how they power retrieval, how to evaluate a model, and wh…
Aman MishraSeptember 22, 2026
Why RAG and AI Agents Need an IDP Ingestion Layer
Extracted document text can be incomplete, outdated, or unsuitable for a workflow. An IDP ingestion layer checks coverage, provenance, and workflow requirements…
Aman MishraSeptember 15, 2026
Routing Accuracy for Ambiguous File Types via Classification (August 2026)
Ambiguous files can produce plausible classification scores and still take the wrong route. Learn how to inspect per-page confidence, handle incomplete results,…
Aman MishraAugust 20, 2026
How to Convert PDF to CSV: Methods and Best Practices (August 2026)
PDFs preserve page layout, not CSV rows and columns. Compare online tools, Excel, Python, OCR, and vision parsing, with a tested batch script and practical accu…
Aman MishraAugust 17, 2026
Confidence Scores for Straight-Through Processing: Automation Thresholds (August 2026)
Confidence scores decide which extracted documents clear automation and which go to a human, but the thresholds only work if you set them per field and keep rec…
Aman MishraAugust 13, 2026
AP Invoice and Purchase Order Automation Guide (August 2026)
Learn how AP teams automate invoice capture, extraction, validation, and three-way matching. See how tolerance checks and targeted exception review help invoice…
Aman MishraAugust 11, 2026
Document Detection: How to Identify Fraud and AI-Generated Files (August 2026)
Rule-based forgery detection works by finding a region that does not match the rest of a file, which is why it catches retouching and misses documents generated…
Aman MishraAugust 5, 2026
AI Automation: Understanding the Technology and Implementation Approaches (August 2026)
You automate one process successfully, then hit a wall scaling it across the organization. Your CRM does not expose the right API, your document parser scramble…
Aman MishraAugust 3, 2026
On-Prem Document Parsing in Air-Gapped, Regulated Environments (July 2026)
An air gap exposes every hidden cloud dependency. Learn how to design a self-contained document-extraction runtime with controlled updates and traceable fields.
Aman MishraJuly 18, 2026
Handwriting OCR: How Recognition Technology Converts Handwritten Text to Digital Data (July 2026)
You need to digitize patient intake forms, loan applications, or handwritten audit notes at scale. But the OCR tool you already use for typed documents falls ap…
Aman MishraJuly 10, 2026
RAG Pipeline Output: Markdown vs JSON (July 2026)
You've extracted the text from your PDFs, scans, and bank statements, and now it goes into a RAG pipeline. Before it does, there's a decision that quietly sets …
Aman MishraJuly 9, 2026
PDF Classification and Routing Guide (July 2026)
When a batch of heterogeneous PDFs (invoices, contracts, and scanned forms) arrives at your pipeline for processing, and you run the same schema extraction on a…
Aman MishraJuly 8, 2026
Bank Statements, Invoices, SEC Filings: Auditable Extraction (June 2026)
A single misread figure rarely stays contained. An extraction tool reads a scanned financial document, returns $5,900 where the page said $9,500, and nothing er…
Aman MishraJune 29, 2026
Financial PDF Table Extraction Guide (June 2026)
You extract a financial table from a scanned PDF, and the parser hands back clean-looking rows and columns. But the numbers are wrong: the OCR collapsed three s…
Aman MishraJune 29, 2026
What Is Intelligent Character Recognition? (June 2026)
Traditional OCR reads a printed invoice flawlessly, then falls apart on a handwritten note. The problem isn't image quality, it's architecture. OCR matches pixe…
Aman MishraJune 26, 2026
How to Extract Data From PDF Files: A Technical Guide (June 2026)
Free PDF extraction tools work fine on a clean one-page table, then fall apart the moment a document is scanned, laid out in multiple columns, or built from tab…
Aman MishraJune 23, 2026
PDF Parsing in Node.js: A Complete Technical Guide (June 2026)
Learn how to use pdf-parse v2 in Node.js for text, tables, images, browser and Next.js workflows, plus when a vision-first parser is a better fit.
Aman MishraJune 16, 2026
Chunking Strategy for RAG Systems: A Technical Implementation Guide (May 2026)
You built a RAG system and the retrieval quality is all over the place. Some queries return perfect context, others pull in irrelevant paragraphs or cut off rig…
Aman MishraMay 15, 2026
What Is Automated Processing? A Complete Guide for March 2026
Most automated claims processing and invoice workflows look impressive in controlled demos but quietly fail in production when documents arrive with inconsisten…
Aman MishraApril 26, 2026
Document Parsing API for RAG: A Technical Guide to PDF Extraction in March 2026
You've tuned embeddings, adjusted chunk sizes, and rewritten prompts, but your RAG system still hallucinates on basic document questions. The real problem is hi…
Aman MishraApril 8, 2026
Document Parsing: A Technical Guide for Engineers in 2026
If you're extracting structured data from PDFs, parser accuracy depends heavily on document type. A document parsing tool that scores 92% on academic papers mig…
Aman MishraApril 8, 2026
Document Data Extraction: A Technical Guide for Modern Applications (April 2026)
Every time you feed a complex document into your document data extraction ai, you're gambling on whether the output will preserve table structures, maintain rea…
Aman MishraMarch 26, 2026
Data Extraction Automation: Complete Guide to Tools and Best Practices (March 2026)
You process thousands of PDFs monthly, but your extraction system only works reliably on one vendor's format. Change the template slightly and accuracy drops, a…
Aman MishraMarch 10, 2026
Understanding AI Document Extraction: A Technical Guide for May 2026
You upload a contract, run your OCR tool, and watch as tables turn into gibberish and headers merge with body text. AI document extraction software solves this …
Aman MishraMarch 1, 2026
Reducto Alternatives: Compare Top Document Parsing APIs (September 2026)
Unsiloed led Reducto's tested agentic configuration by 22 points in a May benchmark and adds hosted retrieval. See what changed with Reducto r-1.
Aman MishraSeptember 8, 2026
Unsiloed AI vs Reducto: Which Is Better in September 2026?
Unsiloed led Reducto's tested agentic configuration 88.0 to 66.0 in a May 2026 benchmark and adds hosted indexing and retrieval.
Aman MishraSeptember 8, 2026
Google Document AI vs Unsiloed: A Technical Comparison for Document Extraction
See why Unsiloed is a stronger Google Document AI alternative for schema-shaped extraction, field-level review evidence, and managed, on-premise, or air-gapped …
Aman MishraAugust 25, 2026
From Invoice PDFs to Payment Reconciliation in Databricks
See how we connected Unsiloed to Databricks to turn invoice PDFs into confidence-scored Delta rows and reconcile them against payment data.
Anyone Can Ship a PR to a Massive Repo Now
I pointed two free open-weight models, Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2, at real open issues on Hoppscotch (80k+ stars) and Mealie (12k+ stars). Both shipped working code, a…
Unsiloed AI vs Unstract: Which Is Better in July 2026?
Unstract's LLMWhisperer and Unsiloed both read a document and give you text back, but they hand you different things. We ran the same files through both, coveri…
Aman MishraJuly 31, 2026
Unsiloed vs Unstract on olmOCR-Bench: 88.5% vs 13.7%
We ran the same 75 documents from Allen AI's olmOCR-Bench through Unsiloed Parser and Unstract LLMWhisperer, then scored both with the unmodified upstream score…
Aman MishraJuly 31, 2026
Unsiloed AI vs Snowflake Document Extraction: Why Accuracy Beats Native Convenience
Snowflake makes it convenient to extract structured data from documents, but convenience does not catch silently missing totals or incorrect digits. We tested S…
Unsiloed AI vs Docparser: Which Is Better in July 2026?
Docparser parses documents with templates and hand-tuned rules; Unsiloed AI extracts against a schema sent with each request. We ran the same five documents thr…
Unsiloed AI vs Azure AI Document Intelligence: Which Is Better in July 2026?
Azure AI Document Intelligence gives you a document-processing toolkit of OCR, layout, prebuilt and custom models, and containers. Unsiloed gives you a schema-f…
Unsiloed AI vs AWS Textract: Which Is Better in July 2026?
AWS Textract is good at OCR. Unsiloed AI is built for what comes after it. We compare schema-driven extraction, output shape, format coverage, deployment, and p…
Unsiloed AI vs Docsumo: Which Is Better in July 2026?
Docsumo and Unsiloed both turn documents into structured data, but we ran the same five documents through both and scored them with the same scripts. Two of fiv…
Pulse Alternatives, Pricing, and Reviews (July 2026)
Pulse turns complex documents into structured data ready for large language models (LLMs), and it does that job well. But document extraction is rarely a single…
Aman MishraJuly 7, 2026
LlamaIndex Alternatives, Pricing, and Reviews (July 2026)
LlamaIndex is a strong framework for prototyping retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, but production pipelines tend to surface the same three limits: p…
Aman MishraJuly 3, 2026
Unsiloed AI vs LlamaIndex: Which RAG Platform Should You Pick in June 2026?
If you're comparing Unsiloed AI and LlamaIndex for document-heavy AI work, the question that should drive the decision is whether you can trust every value your…
Aman MishraJune 4, 2026
Unsiloed AI vs Pulse: Which is Better in June 2026?
If you're comparing Unsiloed AI and Pulse, you're looking at two document extraction platforms that solve the same core problem: turning complex, unstructured d…
Aman MishraJune 4, 2026
Unsiloed AI vs Unstructured: Which is Better in June 2026?
← Back to Blog The Unsiloed AI vs Unstructured comparison matters most when your documents stop being simple. Clean PDFs with single-column text work fine in mo…
Aman MishraJune 4, 2026
Document Data Extraction Software: A Technical Comparison for May 2026
When your extraction pipeline returns JSON that looks valid but semantically wrong, the problem usually traces back to layout understanding. A parser might pull…
Aman MishraMay 15, 2026
Document Parsing Software: Technical Review and Comparison Guide for May 2026
You need document parsing software that converts messy PDFs and scanned forms into structured data your code can actually use. The challenge isn't finding a too…
Aman MishraMay 15, 2026
Document Processing Platform: A Technical Comparison (May 2026)
You need an intelligent document processing solution that handles invoices, contracts, medical records, and financial statements without breaking on nested tabl…
Aman MishraApril 16, 2026
What Are the Best APIs for Converting PDFs to Structured JSON? (April 2026)
You need JSON from a 40-page financial filing, but your current tool either strips all structure or takes 20 minutes to process. Your extraction pipeline works …
Aman MishraApril 15, 2026
Best Document Intelligence APIs for Financial Services (April 2026)
Every financial services AI vendor claims their document processing is production-ready until you send them a scanned mortgage packet or a 150-page prospectus w…
Aman MishraApril 9, 2026
Top Healthcare Document Processing APIs with HIPAA Compliance (April 2026)
You need a healthcare document API that handles real clinical documents, beyond the clean samples vendors show in demos. The challenge is that handwritten notes…
Aman MishraApril 9, 2026
What's the Best PDF Parser for RAG Pipelines? We Tested the Top Options in April 2026
Your vector database is full of semantically broken chunks because the parser you're using treats every PDF like a wall of plain text. Tables lose their structu…
Aman MishraMarch 23, 2026
Best Layout-Aware OCR Solutions for Complex Documents (April 2026 Update)
If your table extraction API struggles with nested tables or multi-column layouts, you're not alone. Most OCR solutions handle straightforward documents well bu…
Aman MishraMarch 22, 2026
Data Extraction Software: Technical Evaluation Guide for May 2026
Everyone claims their PDF data extraction software works great until you feed it the scanned contracts and financial reports you actually need to process. Vendo…
Aman MishraMarch 14, 2026
Top Multimodal Data Extraction Tools for Enterprise AI Agents (April 2026)
Building AI agents means feeding them structured data, but structured data APIs for documents rarely deliver on complex layouts. Your parser sees a multi-column…
Aman MishraMarch 12, 2026
Document Parser Tools: A Technical Comparison for Developers in May 2026
Your document parser choice determines whether your RAG pipeline retrieves coherent context or fragmented nonsense. A parser that flattens a multi-column invoic…
Aman MishraMarch 7, 2026
Best AI for Data Integration in Tech Industry: April 2026 Review
If you're comparing AI iPaaS solutions or Talend for master data management, you're probably asking the same question we hear from enterprise teams: what happen…
Aman MishraMarch 3, 2026