How a presentation platform turned decks into structured data
A fast-growing presentation platform needed to read user-uploaded decks and documents reliably.
The challenge
A presentation platform let users import existing decks and documents, then rebuild them as polished slides. But the imports were all over the map — exported PDFs, scanned handouts, dense reports — and the team's homegrown parsing dropped tables and mangled reading order often enough to hurt the experience.
The approach
They moved import parsing to Docen. Parse recovered clean structure and reading order; layout detection kept tables and figures intact; and a light extraction schema pulled titles and section headings to pre-fill the new deck.
- Parsing and layout to recover clean structure.
- Schema-driven extraction for the fields that mattered.
- Evaluation against a labeled sample before rollout.
The outcome
Import quality stopped being a support burden. The team retired their custom parser and now spend their time on the product instead of on edge-case document handling.
We were spending real engineering time babysitting a parser. Switching that layer to Docen let us delete a whole class of bugs.— Head of Product, presentation-software team
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