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Document Workflows (LandingAI ADE)

Build batch, RAG, database and visualization pipelines for parsed documents using LandingAI ADE

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Repository
andrewyng/context-hub
Stars
13,984
Licence
MIT
Files
7 files

What it does

This skill gives an AI agent ready-made patterns for chaining document processing steps together: parsing many files in parallel, sorting mixed document types, preparing text chunks for search databases, loading results into databases or CSV/DataFrames, and drawing boxes or highlights on the original page images. It is a companion to a simpler skill that covers basic LandingAI ADE SDK calls. The agent will also run a short pre-flight check on sample documents before writing code, so it does not guess at heading formats.

Great for

  • Developers building document ingestion pipelines on LandingAI ADE
  • Data teams loading extracted invoice, form or report fields into Snowflake or CSV files
  • Engineers preparing parsed PDFs for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector databases

Skip it if

  • People who only need a one-off extraction from a single PDF; the basic ADE skill is simpler and cheaper to use
  • Anyone without a LandingAI ADE account and API key, since the workflows depend on paid API calls
  • Sensitive documents processed without review: the skill mentions redacting PII, but redaction accuracy depends on the code the agent writes and should be checked

Try asking

  • “Process this folder of 500 scanned invoices in parallel and write the extracted fields to a CSV file”
  • “Build a pipeline that first classifies mixed documents and then runs the right extraction for each type”
  • “Chunk these parsed research papers and prepare them for loading into a Chroma vector database”
  • “Draw bounding-box overlays on these PDF pages so I can check where each extracted value came from”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Document Workflows (LandingAI ADE)Install, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 7 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    document-workflows.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip document-workflows.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip document-workflows.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent one or two representative sample documents first so the pre-flight step can inspect the real parse output before any pipeline code is written.
  • Save parse results to a JSON file after the first API call and reuse them during development to avoid paying for repeat parses.
  • Review any code that writes to databases or redacts content, and test it on sample files before running it on the full corpus.

What's inside

  • references/batch-processing.md
  • references/database-integration.md
  • references/rag-pipelines.md
  • references/schema-catalog.md
  • references/table-stitching.md
  • references/visualization.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from andrewyng/context-hub under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.