Pushing document parsing frontiers with Reducto

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Pushing document parsing frontiers with Reducto

Hosted by Jason Liu, Evan Vogelbaum, Yifei Hu, and Alvin Ryanputra

Tue, Oct 14, 2025

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Systematically Improving RAG Applications

Jason Liu

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Tue, Oct 14, 2025

6:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Systematically Improving RAG Applications

Jason Liu

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What you'll learn

Hybrid OCR-VLM Architecture Design

Discover how to combine traditional OCR with vision language models to achieve high accuracy and low latency.

Large-Scale Document Processing Pipeline

Learn to build production systems that parse complex multi-page documents without hallucination issues.

Natural Language Document Automation

Master techniques for enabling PDF/Word editing through conversational interfaces and structured extraction.

Why this topic matters

Most business data is trapped in PDFs and Word docs that traditional AI can't reliably process. This hybrid OCR-VLM approach solves a $50B+ problem affecting every industry. Students will learn production-ready techniques to automate document workflows, opening career paths in enterprise AI, fintech, healthcare, and legal tech where document processing expertise commands premium salaries.

You'll learn from

Jason Liu

Consultant at the intersection of Information Retrieval and AI

Jason has built search and recommendation systems for the past 6 years. He has consulted and advised a dozens startups in the last year to improve their RAG systems. He is the creator of the Instructor Python library.