[sgc]

I can get multiple sets of footnotes (critical + content notes) reliably recognized and categorized using gemini-3-flash-preview. I took 15-20 hours to iterate on my prompt for a specific format. Otherwise it would not produce good enough results. It was a slow process because results from batch did not mirror what I was getting from the chat mode, and you have to wait for batch results while analyzing the last set. There was also a bit of debugging of the batch protocol going on at the same time. Flash is also surprisingly affordable for the results I am getting, 4-5x less than I had anticipated. I gave up on gemini-3-pro pretty quickly because it overthinks and messes things up.