[portInit]

Appreciate you taking the time to play around with crul and share your thoughts! They're incredibly valuable.

1. Although it has limitations, were you able to try the normalize command? https://www.crul.com/docs/queryconcepts/api-normalization

2. Will need to think about this some more.

3. Although we don't yet handle pdfs, the rest of the flow is one we aiming to accomplish with crul. Other than pdf, the pieces should be there and would love to understand this further

[djhn]

1: It does expand a level of hierarchy if you already know what you're looking for (from manually getting the data). Is there a way to omit columns that have more levels or keep them as list columns?

2: Probably too niche to be worth it for you :)

3: Parsing pdfs automagically isn't easy, but handling downloads and images and storing them in a bucket would go quite far (I guess there's a way to do that, but I didn't immediately see a "simple" example).

It sounds like it's potentially a great tool, the only open question is really, is it worth studying the docs and implementing a process in crul as opposed to whatever language I'm familiar with already?