A German film industry trade association
In developmentReports Members Actually Read
New material lands at the association all the time: market reports, analyses, studies — a steady stream of PDFs from industry data providers. Valuable, but in that form hardly anyone reads it.
The pipeline behind it turns them into reports at three zoom levels — from a two-liner to the detailed breakdown — plus trends over time and a search that understands meaning, not just words.
- Digest levels
- three, plus a trend view
- Search
- hybrid: full text plus embeddings
- Editorial workflow
- drop in a file, the rest runs
From PDF Stream to Readable Answers
The workflow is built around the editorial team: upload a file, done. The pipeline extracts the content, generates the tiered summaries and stores everything in searchable form. Anyone who just wants to know whether a report matters reads the short version; anyone who wants more zooms in.
The search combines classic full text with semantic similarity — deliberately running on the existing database infrastructure, with no extra search cluster. That keeps operations lean and response times short.
And because real PDFs are rarely as clean as their spec sheets: the pipeline earned its error handling on real files. Broken encodings, outlier formats, edge cases — that is exactly what made the processing robust.
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