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From Diverse Table Scans to Cohesive Datasets with LLMs

Multimodal LLMs do surprisingly well at processing scans of historical tables almost from start to finish. They especially shine when we need to combine tables from various sources with varying table headers for similar concepts, like car ownership. LLMs are not the "best" method for any given case, but they make creating cohesive historical datasets much easier.