Let's Talk About Raw Documents
Speakers

Back End Engineer by trade including a decade at Red Hat. Previous 5 years at an NLP startup serving as the technical lead for a key product.

Ben was the machine learning lead for Splice Machine, leading the development of their MLOps platform and Feature Store. He is now a the Co-founder and CTO at GrottoAI focused on supercharging multifamily teams and reduce vacancy loss with AI-powered guidance for leasing and renewals. Ben also works as an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis teaching concepts in cloud computing and big data analytics.
SUMMARY
Modern ML pipelines still often need pre-processed documents. This isn't changing anytime soon, in fact, the appetite is growing.
Unstructured.io is focused on extracting structured data from raw documents (pdf, pptx, html, etc). In the near term, we're more NLP-focused.
Check out Unstructured.io's open-source libraries!

