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Making Document Intelligence Accessible and Affordable

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Chao Cheng
Chao Cheng
Software Engineer @ Cobbling AI

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Cobbling AI delivers high-quality PDF, image, and website parsing to markdown at affordable prices, eliminating the need to choose between expensive premium services or budget options with poor results.

Let's face it – document processing has come a long way. OCR technology is impressive, and many LLMs can handle documents pretty well these days. The real problem? Getting that quality without emptying your wallet.

The Price-Quality Dilemma​

We've spent countless hours testing the market options, and here's what we discovered:

  1. Want quality parsing? Be prepared to pay premium prices (like "maybe we should cut the office snacks" kind of prices)
  2. Want affordable parsing? Lower your expectations (hope you enjoy playing "guess what this paragraph was supposed to say!")

It's that frustrating middle ground that was missing – high-quality document processing that normal humans and bootstrapped startups can actually afford.

Cobbling AI: The Sweet Spot Solution​

We didn't build Cobbling AI because we invented some magical new OCR technology (though our engineers are pretty clever). We built it because we're obsessed with finding that elusive balance:

  • Quality parsing that preserves document structure and formatting
  • Pricing that won't make your finance team break into a cold sweat
  • An API simple enough that you'll actually enjoy using it

Markdown: The Universal Translator​

We chose markdown as our output format because it's the perfect middle ground – structured enough to preserve document hierarchy but clean enough for LLMs to work with efficiently. It's like the diplomatic translator between your messy human documents and your picky AI models.

Join the "Great Document Democratization"​

We believe quality document processing shouldn't be a luxury feature. Whether you're processing ten documents a month or ten thousand, Cobbling AI scales with you without the terrifying bill shock.

Give us a try and see for yourself – we're not claiming to reinvent the wheel, just making sure you can afford the car.