Feeding PTX ISA to LLMs: Converting Figures to ASCII Art with Gemini
bingxu_ · x · 2026-09-26
In April 2025, the author used Gemini 2.5 Pro to convert the PTX ISA PDF into Markdown — even turning all the figures into ASCII art to help the LLM understand the layout.
His takeaway: OCR models have gotten remarkably better in just one year.
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