Accelerating Document AI

Multimodal LLMs now ingest PDFs and images directly — no OCR step required. Claude Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro handle tables, mixed layouts, and scanned documents end-to-end in a single API call.

Most RAG pipelines built in 2023 still route documents through Textract or Tesseract before chunking. That adds $1.50 per 1,000 pages plus pipeline latency. Treating document parsing as a preprocessing problem is now the wrong frame — the model is the parser.

Teams running invoice or contract extraction should cut Textract from the stack entirely. Plain text PDFs still work fine with pdfplumber.