# PaddleOCR-VL Projects at AI Tinkerers

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- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
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## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [A Hybrid Pipeline using PaddleOCR Layout Analysis & LLM Text-to-SQL](https://hong-kong.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_s_ryBMDZTWM)

I will demonstrate a live, end-to-end pipeline that solves the nightmare of unstructured financial data. The demo consists of two technical deep-dives: 1. The "Jailbreak" (PDF => Structured): I’ll show how to use PaddleOCR-VL not just for text detection, but for Layout Analysis. We will take a messy, multi-column financial PDF, identify the regions (headers vs. paragraphs vs. tables), and reconstruct the tables directly into Pandas DataFrames while preserving row/column integrity—something standard OCR fails at. 2. The "Interrogation" (Natural Language => SQL): Once the data is structured (simulated in MySQL via Docker), I’ll demo a Python agent using ERNIE 5.0 (via an OpenAI-compatible client) that acts as a "SQL Architect." It takes natural language questions from a CFO persona (e.g., "How did T-103 perform against targets in Asia?"), generates valid SQL, executes it against the containerized DB, and interprets the results.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Hong Kong & GBA: Applied AI in Finance Demos — 2026-01-20 — Hong Kong
- Public talk page: https://hong-kong.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_s_ryBMDZTWM

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