Four-Project Series

AI-Powered Document Assistant: From Text to Insights

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Intermediate Python Programming • basic Jupyter Notebooks • basic API concepts • basic Google Colab
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Generative AI application development • RAG implementation • document processing pipelines • interactive interface design • production deployment practices
Kannupriya Kalra & Pavan Vamsi
4 weeks · 4-8 hours per week average · INTERMEDIATE

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Strategic Insights Partners struggles with a flood of unstructured business documents, slowing client work and limiting scalability. In this series of liveProjects, you’ll build an AI-powered document assistant that extracts key information, answers natural language questions with RAG, and handles multiple file formats. Using OpenAI’s API, Python libraries like PyPDF2 and pandas, and IPyWidgets, you’ll progress from text analysis to PDF processing, vector search, content filtering, and interactive dashboards. By the end, you’ll deliver a client-ready Colab application that turns complex document workflows into instant, actionable insights.

These projects are designed for learning purposes and are not complete, production-ready applications or solutions.

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Project 1 Document Text Analyzer

In this liveProject, you’ll build an intelligent document analyzer that frees your team from hours of tedious manual review. You’ll use OpenAI’s API to extract entities, classify document types, and generate crisp summaries—all from raw, unstructured text. Along the way, you’ll practice prompt-engineering techniques that turn sprawling client documents into clean, structured insights your analysts can act on. By the end, you’ll have a working Google Colab notebook that automatically identifies what a document is about, when key events occurred, and whether it deserves immediate attention.

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Project 2 Smart Document Q&A System

In this liveProject, you’ll extend a simple document analyzer with a smart Q&A system that answers client questions instantly. You’ll use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), document chunking, and vector embeddings to help your model pinpoint the most relevant sections and provide clear, reliable answers in natural language. Along the way, you’ll work with lightweight in-memory databases and build semantic search capabilities that turn sprawling documents into responsive, conversational knowledge sources.

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Project 3 Multi-Document Processing Pipeline

In this liveProject, you'll turn a document analysis system into a full multi-format processing pipeline built for real enterprise demands. You’ll implement PDF handling, document type detection, and a layered workflow that can process entire collections at once—with structured outputs and responsible content filtering baked in. As you build, you’ll learn advanced pipeline architecture, orchestration patterns, and robust extraction techniques that bring professional reliability to every stage of the process.

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Project 4 Interactive Document Assistant Application

In this liveProject, you’ll upgrade a powerful document analysis backend into a polished, user-friendly application that anyone can operate—no technical skills required. Using IPyWidgets, interactive visualizations, and smart interface design, you’ll build a web-style experience inside Google Colab with drag-and-drop uploads, real-time processing views, an intuitive Q&A chat, and professional reporting dashboards. By completing this project, you’ll learn interface engineering, performance monitoring, caching, and other deployment-ready patterns that make advanced AI systems accessible to business users.

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Kannupriya Kalra
Kannupriya Kalra is an engineering leader and creator of LLM4S, the first AI-native platform for Scala. She contributes to the AI open-source ecosystem through the Scala Center, LLM4S, and Google Open Source, and leads the Google Summer of Code programs for the Scala Center. Based in London, she has presented on AI in over ten countries and is passionate about empowering developers through hands-on generative AI projects and open-source contributions.
Pavan Vamsi
Pavan Vamsi is a software engineer at Microsoft’s Core AI Division in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he drives large-scale integration of Copilot into developer tools. With nearly a decade of experience in enterprise software and cloud infrastructure, he has created several open-source tools, including Prompt Cop, Prompt Craft, and Focus Pulse AI, all aimed at improving productivity, security, and AI-driven workflows.

Prerequisites

These liveProjects are for beginner to intermediate software engineers and developers who want to gain hands-on experience building generative AI applications. To begin these liveProjects, you will need to be familiar with:


TOOLS
  • Intermediate Python
  • Beginner Jupyter Notebooks
  • Beginner Google Colab
  • Beginner OpenAI API

TECHNIQUES
  • Beginner Python Programming
  • Beginner Data Manipulation
  • Beginner API Usage

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