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Research & models / 2024—26

Document intelligence.

Structured extraction work for Kenyan identity and onboarding documents.

PracticeOCR + extraction · onboarding
My partBackend and document-processing implementation.
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Research & modelsDocument intelligenceSystems shaped for people.
01 / Context

The problem behind the work.

Applications slow down when document fields must be re-keyed or cannot be checked consistently.

02 / Contribution

What I built.

  1. 01

    FastAPI extraction paths combining image/PDF processing, OCR, Gemini vision and rule-based validation.

  2. 02

    Structured JSON outputs for document types including IDs and registration records.

03 / Where it stands

This workstream is separate from the Django/Paperless enterprise document workflow. The linked repositories are public source examples.

Technology and methods

FastAPIPaddleOCROpenCVPyMuPDFGeminiPython
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