Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion's US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News.

I built this project because I wanted a real backend-style portfolio app that takes messy receipt text and turns it into clean, structured data through an API, using a job/status flow like many ...

Abstract: This study focuses on the fundamental process of parsing sentences to create semantic graphs from textual documents. It introduces novel techniques for parsing phrases within semantic ...

Tabscanner SDK from 2019. Still useful as this is around the time that we first held the most accurate OCR for receipts at 96% on core line item data. The Tabscanner API has now completely replaced ...

You can access the Gemini API key for free and without having to set up cloud billing. Google has made the process straightforward. Currently, Google is offering Gemini Pro models for both text and ...

Google Colab, also known as Colaboratory, is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser. It works like Jupyter Notebook but without the hassle of ...

One of the lesser-known apps in the Google Drive online suite is Google Forms. It's an easy, intuitive way to create a web form for other people to enter information into. You can use it for employee ...

LangExtract lets users define custom extraction tasks using natural language instructions and high-quality “few-shot” examples. This empowers developers and analysts to specify exactly which entities, ...

Google announced the early release of the first API for Google Trends, known as the Google Trends API. Google Trends is a site that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search ...

Great tech tools abound, but keeping up with all the options can be challenging for teachers and students alike. For teachers, the time it takes to test and set up new tools can be a deterrent from ...