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Comment by binalpatel

This is admittedly dated but even back in December 2023 GPT-4 with it's Vision preview was able to very reliably do structured extraction, and I'd imagine Gemini 3 Flash is much better than back then.

https://binal.pub/2023/12/structured-ocr-with-gpt-vision/

Back of the napkin math (which I could be messing up completely) but I think you could process a 100 page PDF for ~$0.50 or less using Gemini 3 Flash?

>560 input tokens per page * 100 pages = 56000 tokens = $0.028 input ($0.5/m input tokens) >~1000 output tokens per page * 100 pages = $0.30 output ($3/m output tokens)

(https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3#media_resolut...)

parent binalpatel 9 months ago

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