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Needed AI to Extract Rate Formula from Text Description in PDF

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Hello. This is a unique problem. Please provide a detailed proposal. Vague applications will be ignored. Speak to the problem. Looking for people with creative ideas. The task is to extract a rate formula from a textual description in a PDF file. In Texas, the electricity market is deregulated. Rates are defined by a document called an Energy Facts Label (EFL). Several examples of EFLs are attached. These PDFs then describe, in words, a math formula. There are thousands of these EFLs. The Rate Formulas PDF file (attached) gives several examples of different descriptions, and a graph of the formulas that result. Rates are a function of kwh, ie R(x) where x = kilowatt hours. EFLs include a spot pricing table at 500, 1000, and 2000 kwh. This shows the rate value at those precise points, ie R(500), R(1000), and R(2000). This is useful for testing whether an accurate rate formula solution has been found or not. C# source code has been attached. There are two console applications. 1) PowerToChooseScraper. This program will download all the EFLs currently in the market. Just give it a target folder and it will download the PDFs there. This program may have some little bugs, but should work for you. 2) PTC. This is old code. It is a first draft attempt at creating a program to parse the PDFs and extract the rate formulas. Code hasn't been touched for many years. At the time it was created, it was looking good. Not 100%, but was getting ~65% accuracy. I do not care if the existing PTC code is used or not. I also don't care if your work is in C# or something else, but whatever the solution, the final working version will end up in C#. If you want to use a language other than C# for developing the initial logic, I'll ask why. If using ML techniques, that could be a good reason. This is a unique problem because it could be approached in a lot of ways. It could maybe be solved using ML/learning techniques. Maybe word similarity algorithms like Jaro-Winkler. The PTC code works by trying multiple approaches. It runs in a loop, stepping through methods, until it successfully found a solution. The approaches attempted are all fairly rudimentary. No learning algorithms have been attempted. I also do not expect 100% accuracy. Just as close as possible. ~95%. It's possible some EFLs have human errors in them, where the numbers are actually wrong and don't make sense. In which case the goal is to discover that. If a solution can't be found, we want to flag this EFL for a human to review it and determine what is going on. Over time we can improve the accuracy. I'm looking for for the discrete logic that processes a single PDF and outputs the rate formula, or an error code if it can't be determined. The larger infrastructure to then download and process these files, database the results, etc., is a separate thing outside the scope of this project. I will be working with you directly on this. I am an expert in C#, ML, and well versed in these EFLs. I can help guide your approach.
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Hi, I am Smithangshu Ghosh, a C#.Net developer with the experience of more than 7 years. I have seen you have posted this project twice so I am placing my bid on the recent one. I only bid on those projects which I believe I can accomplish. This project is looking very interesting to me as earlier I have done Exam Copy Checking software with OCR for Saudi Arabian Govt. Educational Dept. So that I strongly believe that I can accomplish this project involving OCR for electricity billing formula extraction from textual format to automated computation friendly format considering my skill set along with your kind guidance since I get to know from project description that you are a C# and ML expert. I will be very glad to work with you. I believe we together can make it. Please give me an opportunity by initiating the chat with me. I can guarantee you will not be disappointed. If you check my profile that whenever I got opportunity I never failed. And all the works I have done earlier are having challenging scenarios. Cause I like taking challenges and overcome those to make my clients satisfied to establish a valuable business relationship with them. If you kindly allow me to work with you, in future for any project involving my skill sets you will never need to look around for other developers, I can assure you that. Please allow me to prove myself. The amount that I set is a rough idea. I will be waiting for your reply in chat. Have a great day. Regards, Smith
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Hi, We have checked your job description carefully and we can give a try. We have rich experience on Python, ML, DL etc. We are sure that we can deliver the perfect result as you want on time within your budget. Our Tech Stack -  Python, Django, ML, DL, Transfer Learning, NLP, Image processing,Tensorflow,Keras etc  previous work: Purchase Bot ( Client wanted to Purchase Rare Nike Drops) Lung Simulator  Amazon Machine Trunk's Replica  2 D to 3 D Image Processing  Fire Detection on CCTV cameras Trained a Neural Network model to find the complexity of Supply chain based on some given parameters Sentimental analysis on IMDB movie review data Uber price prediction Price changes for passangers by location. Football data analysis  Positional data analysis  Face mask deduction  Face mesh detection  Chat BOT ( Guide Flow and Free Guide)  Looking forward to taking the opportunity to work with you. Best regards
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hello, I have seen that you need an experienced AI expert for Needed AI to Extract Rate Formula from Text Description in PDF . I am a professional AI expert with more than 10 years experience. I have carefully understood your project requirements am sure that, I can do your project in very professional way. I have some more questions ,lets discuss the details in chatbox thank you
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Hi. I did a very similar project for another client a few months ago. I am sure i can do the same for you. Kindly drop me a message in chat so we can discuss this in more detail
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I have 10 years plus experienced in web and windows applications development and also worked on pdf data extraction using itextsharp with regex patterns matching of data.
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