A 3000+ archive of 1945-1991 annual reports becomes a testbed for computer-use agents
DhruvBatra_ · x · 2026-09-04
- PhilHedayatnia built an archive of 3,000+ corporate annual reports from 1945-1991 — for most of the last century, companies hired serious designers, illustrators, and artists to typeset their most boring document, leaving behind gorgeous art-nouveau typography.
- Someone is now using these reports to test n2's data extraction ability; watching a computer-use agent read art nouveau typefaces is "oddly satisfying."
- Both a nostalgic resource and a real-world testbed for visually rich information extraction.
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