Cedric Clyburn

This talk addresses the challenge of processing unstructured data, such as PDFs, presentations, and technical documents, to make it usable for AI applications. The core thesis is that effectively structuring this data is crucial for building robust AI systems like RAG and agents, and that open-source tools can provide efficient, local solutions. The presentation highlights the limitations of basic parsing methods and introduces Docling as a comprehensive tool for extracting and transforming various document formats.