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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: 3926fce8-71bb-4a00-bcbf-28287947aa02' \
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - parser broke on the quarterly business review PDF: agent extracted wrong renewal dates and the sync failed - [agent extracted the wrong email from a resume - the PDF had two addresses and it picked t…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: parser failed on customer questionnaire PDF agent extracted footer text as
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - parser broke on the quarterly business review PDF: agent extracted wrong renewal dates and the sync failed - [agent extracted the wrong email from a resume - the PDF had two addresses and it picked t…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: parser failed on customer questionnaire PDF agent extracted footer text as
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent PDF statement parser returning an empty balance column so every match fails: inspect the PDF's text layer, handle scanned images with OCR, and target the balance by position or pattern rather than by column assumption. Use when balances extract as blank. Not for PDFs that are corrupt or password locked.
Gates chargeback evidence PDFs on image quality before OCR, preprocesses borderline pages, and routes failures to manual review. Use when the agent's scraper chokes on blurry scans or OCR returns garbage. Not for clean digital PDFs or general document parsing.
Fixes PaddleOCR returning empty text on German contract pages: set lang='german' so the German model downloads and loads, rerun the pages, and handle mixed-language documents per page. Use when German pages come back blank while other languages work. Not for garbled output or download failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pdfminer returns empty text on scanned annual report, parsing failed - agent broke out of the pagination loop on the first empty page - the API legitimately returns empty pages mid-list
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: paddleocr returns empty text on German contract pages — the language p
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Fixes tabula read_pdf_with_template shifting columns on a scanned fee schedule: prove the scan has no text layer, OCR it with ocrmypdf, apply the template to the OCR'd file, and re-measure areas if needed. Use when templates work on digital PDFs but fail on scans. Not for digital-PDF template or row-merging issues.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - camelot read_pdf returns empty tables on a bordered fee schedule - how to fix - [scanned schedule table read as one long column - OCR destroyed the fee tiers and the agent extracted a single blended.…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: tabula read_pdf_with_template shifts columns on a scanned fee schedule
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes camelot read_pdf returning empty tables on a bordered fee schedule: verify the borders are real lines, try stream flavor, tune lattice parameters, pin table_areas, or fall back to pdfplumber. Use when visibly bordered tables are not detected. Not for scanned PDFs or cell-content accuracy issues.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pdfplumber "extract_tables returns None" on a bordered fee schedule - Empty content on referer-checked PDF links - pass a referer to the Reader
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: camelot read_pdf returns empty tables on a bordered fee schedule —
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes LinkSquares clause search returning no results for a clause visible in the PDF: check processing status, re-run extraction, verify with an exact-phrase search, and confirm the clause type is enabled for the agreement type. Use when one document is unsearchable. Not for wrong-result ranking or platform-wide outag…
Fixes an agent parser that fails on a scanned compliance matrix by running OCR first. Use it when the PDF has no selectable text. Not for native PDFs that parse fine.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't find the governing-law clause - OCR turned "§ 14.2" into "S 14.2" in every cross-reference and the... - [agent skipped the auto-renewal date - coffee stain on the scanned page and OCR …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: paragraph numbering misread — OCR turned '7.7' into '1.1' and t
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes duplicate clause extraction when the agent uses both the PDF text layer and an OCR pass. Use when every clause appears twice and diffs report phantom changes. Covers detecting text-layer presence per page, OCRing only textless pages, and a dedupe guard. Not for documents that are pure scans.
This skill handles pdftotext 'missing endstream' syntax errors on 10-K PDFs. It treats poppler warnings as non-fatal, validates by output quality, and repairs the stubborn files.
This skill recovers from pypdf EmptyFileError on corrupt-looking filing PDFs. It validates download size first and re-downloads before suspecting the source file.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pypdf "PdfReadError: EOF marker not found" on a concatenated contract portfolio - data agent misreading null vs empty string in dedupe: explicit null semantics
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pypdf 'empty file: no data to be read' on corrupt filing pdf
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes notary stamps overlapping clause text getting OCR'd into the middle of sentences. Use when extracted clauses contain stamp fragments (commission expiry, county names) mid-sentence. Covers preferring the PDF text layer, masking stamp regions, and restricting quotes to body-text blocks. Not for clean text-layer PD…