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Accenture's own internal data confirms that converting PDFs into markdown is among the big token chewers.

Responding to Henderson, Kwak confirms that this PDF-to-markdown behavior is exactly what Accenture's own data shows. ✦ AI generated

Justice Kwak · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-07 · original ↗

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That's when Kwak says that's what Accenture's own data shows.

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Inside Accenture, it is not the engineers driving token consumption — it's largely the non-engineers engaging in token-hungry behaviors.Justice Kwak · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 60%

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A major token-chewing behavior is converting PDFs into images and then into markdown files.Stuart Henderson · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 80%