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Drupal Droptica AI Doc Processing Case Study

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VictorStackAI
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VictorStackAI

The drupal-droptica-ai-doc-processing-case-study project is a Drupal-focused case study that documents an AI-assisted workflow for processing documents. The goal is to show how a Drupal stack can ingest files, extract usable data, and turn it into structured content that Drupal can manage.

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This is useful when you have document-heavy pipelines (policies, manuals, PDFs) and want to automate knowledge capture into a CMS. Droptica's BetterRegulation case study is a concrete example: Drupal 11 + AI Automators for orchestration, Unstructured.io for PDF extraction, GPT-4o-mini for analysis, RabbitMQ for background summaries.

This post consolidates the earlier review notes and case study on Droptica AI document processing.

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  • Drupal 11 is the orchestration hub and data store for processed documents.
  • Drupal AI Automators provides configuration-first workflow orchestration instead of custom code for every step.
  • Unstructured.io (self-hosted) converts messy PDFs into structured text and supports OCR.
  • GPT-4o-mini handles taxonomy matching, metadata extraction, and summary generation using structured JSON output.
  • RabbitMQ runs background processing for time-intensive steps like summaries.
  • Watchdog logging is used for monitoring and error visibility.

Integration notes you can reuse​

  • Favor configuration-first orchestration (AI Automators) so workflow changes don't require code deploys.
  • Use Unstructured.io for PDF normalization, not raw PDF libraries, to avoid headers, footers, and layout artifacts.
  • Filter Unstructured.io output elements to reduce noise (e.g. Title, NarrativeText, ListItem only).
  • Output structured JSON that is validated against a schema before field writes.
  • Use delayed queue processing (e.g. 15-minute delay for summaries) to avoid API cost spikes.
  • Keep AI work in background jobs so editor UI stays responsive.

QA and reliability notes​

  • Validate extraction quality before LLM runs. Droptica measured ~94% extraction quality with Unstructured vs ~75% with basic PDF libraries.
  • Model selection should be empirical; GPT-4o-mini delivered near-parity accuracy with far lower cost in their tests.
  • Use structured JSON with schema validation to prevent silent field corruption.
  • Add watchdog/error logs around each pipeline stage for incident tracing.
  • Include a graceful degradation plan for docs beyond context window limits (e.g. 350+ page inputs).

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