Isaac Flath to teach "PDF to Production" course: why PDFs are evil and how to process them
doesdatmaksense · x · 2026-11-13
Joseph Barrow is helping fast.ai's Isaac Flath put finishing touches on a "PDF to Production" course.
Slide previews show the course will argue "PDFs are evil," contrast traditional pipelines vs. VLMs (with a meme about processing 1,000 pages per second, all wrong), stress that looking at results matters more than tooling, and walk through building your first annotation app with a spreadsheet.
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