Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs

Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs

AI NewsAugust 18, 202613Views 0Likes 0Comments

import os, sys, io, json, time, math, re, subprocess, warnings from collections import Counter, defaultdict warnings.filterwarnings("ignore") os.environ.setdefault("USE_TORCH", "1") def _pip(*pkgs): subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-q", *pkgs], check=False) try: import doctr except ImportError: print(">> Installing python-doctr (this takes ~1-2 min on Colab)...") _pip("python-doctr[viz]") try: import reportlab except ImportError: _pip("reportlab") import numpy as np import…

How AI is giving Northern Ireland teachers time back

OpenAIAugust 18, 202614Views 0Likes 0Comments

Embracing the opportunity ahead, responsibly We believe the promise of AI in education can only be achieved by developing it responsibly. One essential facet of this is doing so in close partnership with the entire education ecosystem. When my team and I met with Damian Harvey, Interim Head of C2k, he emphasized this point. He…

Becoming Human AI Is Expanding — Here’s What’s Changing

Human AiAugust 18, 202616Views 1Like 0Comments

For years, this has been where you’ve found us — through Medium, whenever we published something worth your time. That’s changing a little, starting now. We’re expanding into a proper newsletter, so expect to hear from us more regularly than “whenever a new post goes up.” If you’ve got email notifications on for this publication, keep an eye on…

Building a Streaming Local AI Agent

Data AnalyticsAugust 13, 202613Views 0Likes 0Comments

"Streaming" gets used in two different ways when people talk about AI agents, and most tutorials only build one of them. Sometimes it means the agent consumes a live stream of events instead of waiting for someone to type a message. Sometimes it means the agent's own output streams out token by token instead…

Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device

AI NewsAugust 13, 202614Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B. It is a 3.1B-parameter vision-language model built for on-device deployment. The model reads digital screens across mobile, web, and desktop. It grounds objects to coordinates, parses documents and charts, and calls tools from text or image input. Liquid AI reports an average of 69.4 across 28 vision benchmarks. That matches…

our most intelligent workhorse model

OpenAIAugust 13, 202613Views 0Likes 0Comments

3.7 Flash shows strong gains over 3.6 Flash in coding tasks like debugging and issue resolution. It also achieves higher first-pass code accuracy and has improved performance in generating production-ready code as seen in FrontierCode 1.1 Main (43.6% vs 34.4%) and DeepSWE v1.1 (65.3% vs 49.0%). In web development, 3.7 Flash generates more functional layouts…

Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video

RoboticsAugust 13, 202621Views 0Likes 0Comments

Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model for robot manipulation. It was pre-trained on more than one million hours of egocentric human video. That is roughly 170 years of continuous waking experience. Robot learning has been bottlenecked by action-labelled data, which teleoperation must deliberately produce. Dyna-2 tests whether ordinary human video can substitute. The…

What is RAFT? RAG + Fine-Tuning

Human AiAugust 13, 202615Views 0Likes 0Comments

In simple terms, retrieval-augmented fine-tuning, or RAFT, is an advanced AI technique in which retrieval-augmented generation is joined with fine-tuning to enhance generative responses from a large language model for specific applications in that particular domain. It allows the large language models to provide more accurate, contextually relevant, and robust results, especially for targeted sectors…

Why the Best AI Agents Are the Ones with Eyes Aiiot Talk

IoTAugust 8, 202618Views 0Likes 0Comments

The idea that AI agents need ‘eyes’ – real visual information from the real world, and not just paperwork and dashboards, have become a marker of advancement in construction technology. Yet mostly what has been referred to as an “agent” today is not actually acting based on what it sees. It narrates and alerts while…

Small Language Models with Hugging Face transformers Library + smolLM3

Data AnalyticsAugust 8, 202620Views 0Likes 0Comments

# Small But Powerful Running a 70B model in production can be expensive, slow, and, for many tasks, unnecessary. If you're building a focused pipeline like a document classifier or a multilingual support responder, a well-trained 3B model will match or beat the 70B on your specific task at a fraction of the…

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