langextract-rust 0.5.0

A Rust library for extracting structured and grounded information from text using LLMs
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# LangExtract Examples Status

## ✅ Streamlined Examples Collection

The examples have been cleaned up to focus on essential functionality and avoid redundancy.

### **Core Examples (Essential Functionality):**

| Example | Purpose | Status | Description |
|---------|---------|---------|-------------|
| `basic_usage.rs` | Getting Started | ✅ Ready | Simple introduction to the library |
| `alignment_demo.rs` | Character Alignment | ✅ Ready | Shows precise text positioning |
| `multipass_demo.rs` | Multi-Pass Extraction | ✅ Ready | Improved recall through multiple passes |
| `product_catalog_test.rs` | Real-World Use Case | ✅ Ready | Comprehensive product extraction |
| `validation_demo.rs` | Validation System | ✅ Ready | Type coercion and error handling |
| `advanced_chunking_demo.rs` | Chunking Features | ✅ Ready | Token-based and semantic chunking |
| `visualization_demo.rs` | Export & Visualization | ✅ Ready | HTML, JSON, CSV export formats |
| `pipeline_demo.rs` | Multi-Step Processing | ✅ Ready | Hierarchical extraction workflows |

### **Token-Based Chunking Features Demonstrated:**

1. **Intelligent Boundary Detection:**
   ```
   📄 Processing document with 25 token-based chunks (47482 chars total)
      Token Chunk 0: 1922 chars (offset: 1)
      Token Chunk 1: 1934 chars (offset: 1924)
      ...respects sentence boundaries
   ```

2. **Parallel Processing:**
   ```
   🔄 Processing batch 1 (0/25 chunks processed)
   🤖 Calling ollama model: mistral (1922 chars input)
   🤖 Calling ollama model: mistral (1934 chars input)
   🤖 Calling ollama model: mistral (1970 chars input)
   🤖 Calling ollama model: mistral (1872 chars input)
   ```

3. **Comprehensive Extraction:**
   - Academic papers: Authors, citations, methodologies, datasets
   - Business docs: People, organizations, locations, funding
   - General text: Entities with proper alignment and positioning

4. **Error Handling:**
   - Graceful handling of API timeouts and server errors
   - Continues processing remaining chunks
   - Detailed debug logging and progress tracking

### **Configuration Examples:**

**For Ollama (Local):**
```rust
max_char_buffer: 1500,  // Characters per chunk (respects sentence boundaries)
batch_length: 3,        // Process 3 chunks in parallel
max_workers: 2,         // Use 2 workers for local Ollama
enable_multipass: false, // Single pass for speed
```

**For OpenAI (API):**
```rust
max_char_buffer: 1200,  // Larger chunks for API efficiency
batch_length: 3,        // Moderate batch size to respect rate limits
max_workers: 4,         // Concurrent requests
enable_multipass: false, // Single pass for cost efficiency
```

### **Performance Results:**

- **Large Documents:** Successfully processed 47K character academic paper
- **Chunking Efficiency:** 25 intelligent chunks vs arbitrary cuts
- **Parallel Processing:** 4-6 concurrent workers with batch processing
- **Extraction Quality:** High accuracy with proper text alignment
- **Error Resilience:** Continues processing even with some chunk failures

### **To Test Examples:**

```bash
# Basic functionality examples
cargo run --example basic_usage
cargo run --example alignment_demo
cargo run --example validation_demo

# Advanced features
cargo run --example multipass_demo
cargo run --example advanced_chunking_demo
cargo run --example visualization_demo

# Specialized examples
cargo run --example product_catalog_test
cargo run --example pipeline_demo
```

## 🎉 Summary

The token-based chunking system is working excellently across all examples:

- **Intelligent chunking** preserves sentence structure
-**Parallel processing** maximizes throughput  
-**Provider flexibility** supports OpenAI and Ollama
-**Error resilience** handles API issues gracefully
-**Scalability** processes documents of any size
-**Debug visibility** provides comprehensive logging

All examples are ready for production use with your providers!