Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st April 2026

Release datasette-extract 0.3a0 — Import unstructured data (text and images) into structured tables

Now uses datasette-llm to manage model configuration, which means you can control which models are available for extraction tasks using the extract purpose and LLM model configuration. #38

Posted 1st April 2026 at 3:32 am

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