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Two models built a legal PDF text library that works well and stalls at 80 percent

Fable and the AI vibecoded a library improving text extraction from legal PDFs; it works pretty well but is stalled at about 80 percent on design and heuristics, with the models churning.

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  1. Two models vibecode a library improving text extraction from legal PDFs
  2. It works pretty well
  3. Stalls at about 80 percent on design and heuristics

Why it’s worth knowing

The last 20 percent of extraction is where the law hides.

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Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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