[sinandrei]

Anyone use these approaches with academic pdfs?

[urschrei]

Another approach is to teach Claude Code how to use your Zotero library's full-text search: https://github.com/urschrei/zotero_search_skill.

[alansaber]

I've not seen any impressive products. But products do exist ie https://scibite.com/solutions/semantic-search/

[amelius]

Anyone using them for electronics datasheets?

[bradfa]

I would like to. I haven't yet found a solution that works well.

The problems with datasheets is tables which span multiple pages, embedded images for diagrams and plots, they're generally PDFs, and only sometimes are they 2-column layout.

Converting from PDF to markdown while retaining tables correctly seems to work well for me with Mistral's latest OCR model, but this isn't an open model. Using docling with different models has produced much worse results.