Hi there, Llama Enthusiasts! 🦙
Welcome to this week's edition of the LlamaIndex newsletter! We're excited to share major updates including automated spreadsheet analysis with LlamaSheets, async PDF processing capabilities, one-click agent deployment, and our analysis of OCR benchmarking challenges. Plus, we're looking for community member who'd like to talk to us about LlamaAgents and LlamaSheets!
📣 Call for Feedback:
We're collecting feedback from early users of our newest products:
- Take a feedback call for LlamaAgents: Tell us about your agent workflows and use cases - Submit Form
- Take a feedback call for LlamaSheets: Share your experience with our spreadsheet parsing API - Submit Form
Users who schedule calls with us will be entered into a raffle for $50 gift cards!
🤩 The Highlights:
- OCR Benchmarking Analysis: Deep dive into OlmOCR-Bench, analyzing its strengths and limitations for real-world document parsing. Our analysis covers benchmark bias, test brittleness, and what next-generation document parsing evaluation should look like. Blog Post.
- Parse all PDFs in a folder with async: Learn how to parse multiple PDFs efficiently with LlamaParse using async processing. Process entire folders, control concurrency with asyncio and semaphores, and get detailed progress tracking. Tutorial.
- Automated Spreadsheet Analysis with LlamaSheets: Build scripts that automate spreadsheet analysis using coding agents to extract clean data from messy Excel files. Set up coding agents like Claude and Cursor to work with LlamaSheets-extracted parquet files, leverage cell-level metadata, and create end-to-end automation pipelines. Tutorial.
🗺️ LlamaCloud:
- Click-to-Deploy Agent Workflows: Deploy production-ready agent workflows with just one click from LlamaCloud. Choose from pre-built templates like SEC financial analysis, configure secrets, and deploy in under 3 minutes with automatic building and hosting. Documentation.
