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Automated Financial Statement Extraction from PDFs Using LLMs
by Cognica Team | November 18, 2025
We introduce the process of building a system that automatically extracts and normalizes financial statements from PDFs in various formats using Large Language Models (LLMs). We cover data model design with Structured Output and Pydantic, the extraction process through Google Gemini API, and post-processing methods applicable to real-world scenarios, all implemented in about 200 lines of code.
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Why Did We Store Two-Dimensional Vectors for Vector Search?
by Cognica Team | July 17, 2024
Explains the limitations and characteristics of vector embeddings and covers the improvements made to store them.
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Searching Case Law Data with Natural Language
by Cognica Team | July 4, 2024
Explains how to build a natural language search service by applying vector search to a case law search demo using FTS.
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Making Case Law Data Quickly Searchable
by Cognica Team | June 21, 2024
Explains the process of downloading case law data and building a case law search service in just one day using Cognica.
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Applying Natural Language Search to Product Search
by Cognica Team | June 12, 2024
We explain the process of data collection and processing, search, and service development for product search using Cognica. Learn how to index when structured and unstructured data are mixed, and how to transform queries for search using LLM.




