Avoid PDFs when giving ChatGPT specs and datasheets
The author recommends converting PDF files to clean text files before providing them to ChatGPT, as PDF analysis can introduce formatting issues and errors. This approach led to better results when working with a complex device datasheet.
Why it matters
Providing clean, well-formatted data to ChatGPT can significantly improve its performance on complex tasks, especially when working with technical specifications and datasheets.
Key Points
- 1PDF files can cause formatting issues and errors when analyzed by ChatGPT
- 2Converting PDF to clean text files before providing to ChatGPT leads to better results
- 3The author had success with this approach when working with a complex device datasheet
Details
The author has extensive experience working with PDF files and OCR, and strongly recommends converting PDF documents to plain text files before providing them to ChatGPT. PDF analysis can introduce bad formatting, wrong characters, and even shuffled content, which can negatively impact ChatGPT's performance. By manually converting the PDF to a clean text file, the author was able to successfully work with a complex device datasheet that had a RS232-like protocol with many parameters, special bytes, and a complex structure. This approach led to an amazing, error-free application that could read and process the datasheet correctly, after multiple failed attempts using the original PDF.
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