Databricks launches AI Extract for accurate PDF field extraction

Databricks has launched AI Extract, a capability for extracting fields from PDFs that it says reaches 95% accuracy versus 87% for other tools, at very low cost. The post notes that LLMs' next-token training makes them "autocorrect" content they should preserve, which this approach is designed to avoid. The function can be called directly from SQL and used across the Databricks platform.