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Sample corpus
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CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 2 weekends
Document Extraction Pipeline
Extract structured fields from messy documents and evaluate correctness against labeled examples.
OCR/visionStructured outputEvaluationPipelinesValidation
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Extraction API
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Eval harness
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Failure cases
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Cost report
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
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Implemented a document extraction pipeline with schema validation and labeled accuracy evaluation.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Human correction UI
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Batch processing
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Model comparison
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