Loss Triangles from pdf

[ryanbthomas]

Create tool (website?) that leverages google and/or microsoft's OCR API to extract loss triangle data out of pdfs. A tool to extract data from loss runs would also be useful, but the geometry of loss runs seen in the wild are much more varied.

[kevinykuo]

What are the use cases for this? I remember having to pick numbers out from Schedule F's and whatnot for SAOs but most of the time you can get loss data from a database or Excel?

[ryanbthomas]

I think the primary user of this would be consultants/brokers. It's quite common to get data as a pdf (e.g., actuarial report which was done for the client by third party).

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