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Document Intelligence Case Study

PDF Extraction with Click-to-Highlight Navigation

Kenstin Technologies built a document intelligence UX: every extracted snippet carries precise page and coordinate metadata, so one click jumps the PDF viewer to the exact passage-highlighted in context for fast audit and review.

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Delivery Snapshot
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8

Weeks

100%

Completion

4

Tech Used

Why teams choose this build

Concrete scope signals from the engagement-structured for evaluation, not vanity metrics.

  • Precision target

    Page + bbox accuracy

  • UX goal

    Click-to-highlight parity

  • Scope

    Extraction + viewer bridge

Project foundation

Context and constraints that shaped the delivery.

We start with scope clarity, challenge mapping, and execution guardrails before implementation begins.

Project overview

What Kenstin delivered

Teams reviewing contracts, policies, or technical PDFs needed extraction for search and workflows-but also needed to verify AI or OCR output against the source. Kenstin delivered an experience where the list of extracted segments and the native PDF viewer stay in lockstep, turning “found text” into trustworthy visual proof.

Challenge

What needed to be solved

Mapping extracted strings to PDF geometry is brittle: layout shifts, multi-column pages, hyphenation, and embedded fonts can break naive offsets. Users will not trust the product if highlights drift by even a line. The solution had to be accurate across pages and resilient to common PDF quirks.

Scope & timeline

How we structured the engagement.

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Key metrics

Delivery snapshot

Delivery window

8 weeks

Precision target

Page + bbox accuracy

UX goal

Click-to-highlight parity

Scope

Extraction + viewer bridge

Engagement note

The team executed in tightly defined milestones with weekly validation loops, keeping scope, quality, and rollout confidence aligned throughout delivery.

Phased delivery

Timeline

  • Weeks 1–3

    Extraction pipeline

    Built parsing and text segmentation with coordinate capture across varied PDF layouts.

  • Weeks 4–5

    Coordinate normalization

    Aligned bounding boxes with viewer coordinates across zoom levels and page sizes.

  • Weeks 6–7

    Viewer integration

    Implemented navigation, scrolling, and highlight overlays wired to list selections.

  • Week 8

    QA & edge cases

    Hardened multi-column layouts, hyphenation, and font edge cases with visual regression checks.

Execution

How we approached delivery and implementation.

Approach

Delivery strategy

Kenstin implemented a position-aware extraction pipeline that stores page indices and bounding boxes for each segment, normalized for the viewer’s coordinate space. List interactions dispatch navigation events with enough metadata to scroll, zoom, and render overlays without guesswork.

Accuracy benchmarks were incorporated early so coordinate drift could be detected before it impacted reviewer trust.

Solution

Implementation details

The implementation covers extraction, indexing for lookup, and click-through navigation. Selecting an item opens the correct page and draws a highlight over the matched region so reviewers can validate meaning and wording in seconds rather than hunting manually.

We also tuned viewer synchronization behavior across zoom and scroll states to keep highlights stable during repeated review actions.

Outcomes

Measurable result

Review throughput improved materially: less manual scanning, fewer mis-citations in downstream work, and higher confidence in extracted fields because users could always snap back to the authoritative PDF location. Teams reported faster validation cycles because discrepancies were easier to spot and resolve in context.

Tech stack

Technologies used in this implementation

The stack is selected for reliability, maintainability, and production readiness.

PDF Parser
Text Extraction Pipeline
Coordinate Mapping
Viewer Integration

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