---
title: "Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/conquering-pdfs-document-understanding-beyond-plain-text-1kojyihgc
source_url: https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/conquering-pdfs-document-understanding-beyond-plain-text
type: article
source: "Explosion"
published: 2025-04-23T16:09:08.477Z
updated: 2025-04-23T16:09:20.774Z
tags: ["machine-learning", "python", "data-science", "nlp"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text

**[Explosion](https://daily.dev/sources/explosionai)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

In this talk, discover a modular approach to document understanding using state-of-the-art models and Python tools. Learn to convert PDFs to structured data, build custom information extraction pipelines, and use OCR for image-based text. Practical examples feature spaCy and the new Docling library.

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Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#data-science](https://daily.dev/tags/data-science), [#nlp](https://daily.dev/tags/nlp)

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