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Extracting financial disclosure reports and police blotter narratives using OpenAI's Structured Output

tl;dr this demo shows how to call OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini model, provide it with URL of a screenshot of a document, and extract data that follows a schema you define. The results are pretty solid even with little effort in defining the data — and no effort doing data prep. OpenAI's API could be a cost-efficient tool for large scale data gathering projects involving public documents.

OpenAI announced Structured Outputs for its API, a feature that allows users to specify the fields and schema of extracted data, and guarantees that the JSON output will follow that specification.

For example, given a Congressional financial disclosure report, with assets defined in a table like this:

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Instructions to obtain WireGuard details of your NordVPN account. These can be used to setup a WireGuard tunnel on your router to NordVPN.

Source: https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/configure-wireguard-client-to-connect-to-nordvpn-servers/10422/27

Prerequisites

If you have any linux machine, use that or install a vm if you don't have one.

Get their official linux app installed. Make sure you have wireguard installed too. And set the used technology to Nordlynx by running nordvpn set technology nordlynx

Configure a Global .gitignore file

.gitignore files list files and directories that Git shouldn't include when adding/committing to repos. These include files that your operating system uses to function properly (like file icons and display settings).

Complete the following steps to set your global .gitignore file for all repos on your system.

These steps were taken from: Configuring ignored files for all repositories on your computer

Is your global .gitignore file already set up? The following shell command will print your settings for your .gitignore:

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