Streamlining Document Processing with AI Introduction Mistral recently introduced Mistral OCR, a powerful API that seamlessly converts PDFs and images into structured Markdown. They claim it sets a new standard in document understanding, offering advanced capabilities for handling tables, images, equations, and multilingual text — all while significantly streamlining the way you read, organize, and utilize complex […]
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Introduction While experimenting with NotebookLM, a tool released by Google that can, among other things, convert your data (research papers, YouTube videos, etc.) into conversation-style podcasts, I realized it would be great to automate podcast generation for the regular content we consume every day. As a next step, I checked if Google had released an
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Introduction In a previous post, I wrote about running local LLMs using Ollama and briefly touched on how we can use the Ollama API to make programmatic calls to models running on Ollama. In this post, we’ll build our first application using Python and Ollama. If you are new to Ollama and local LLMs, I
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Introduction After procrastinating for a long time about running LLMs locally, I finally decided to give it a try, and I chose Ollama to do it. In this post, I’ll share my experience of running these models on a MacBook Air M1 (8GB RAM). Additionally, I also tested them on a Ryzen 5650U Linux machine
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Harnessing Generative AI to Bring Your Unique App Ideas to Life Introduction As a developer, when you have an idea for an app, the first step is to search for an existing solution. You might find something close, then evaluate: is it free, safe, and does it fit your needs? With development tools making app
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What is a package manager ? Package manager is a utility that automates the process of installing, upgrading, and configuring dependencies in a programming environment. The popular package managers like pip, poetry, conda etc, download the dependencies from repositories like PyPI, and maintain specific versions of the same so that there are no conflicts when
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