{"slug": "nitai-dean-idp-software-author", "title": "Nitai Dean: IDP Software Author", "summary": "Nitai Dean is cofounder and chief technology officer of DocuPipe, a New York document extraction platform operated by Hoss Inc. that converts PDFs, scans, photos and spreadsheets into JSON matching a customer-defined schema, running as a hosted API or inside a customer's own cloud account or Kubernetes cluster. Dean leads the machine learning and engineering side alongside cofounder and CEO Uri Merhav, and previously ran the machine learning consultancy Hoss Technologies with Merhav from 2017, building models for startups in Silicon Valley, New York and Tel Aviv before the team turned to its own products, including the document parsing tool DocuPanda that became DocuPipe. Dean authored DocuPipe's comparison with Extend, benchmarking both products on DocuBench, a public set of 72 hard documents in 12 languages, and on Extend's RealDoc-Bench, publishing the labels, scorer and raw outputs on GitHub.", "body_md": "**Cofounder and CTO, DocuPipe** · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitai-dean-3152a048/) · [docupipe.ai](https://www.docupipe.ai/)\n\nNitai Dean is cofounder and chief technology officer of [DocuPipe](../../vendors/docupipe/), a New York document extraction platform operated by Hoss Inc. DocuPipe turns PDFs, scans, photos and spreadsheets into JSON that follows a customer-defined schema, and runs either as a hosted API or inside a customer's own cloud account or Kubernetes cluster. Nitai leads the machine learning and engineering side of the product, alongside cofounder and CEO Uri Merhav.\n\nBefore DocuPipe, Nitai and Uri ran Hoss Technologies, a machine learning consultancy that from 2017 built models for startups in Silicon Valley, New York and Tel Aviv. In [a 2024 essay](https://nitaidean.substack.com/p/from-consulting-to-entrepreneurship), Nitai describes how the consultancy turned to its own products, first the image tools PhotoBear and the storytelling app MyTales, and then DocuPanda, the document parsing product now called DocuPipe, built because the parsing tools the team had used on client projects fell short. Nitai reached Master rank in Kaggle machine learning competitions and studied at Tel Aviv University.\n\nNitai wrote DocuPipe's [comparison with Extend](https://www.docupipe.ai/blog/docupipe-vs-extend-benchmark), which runs both products on DocuBench, a public set of 72 hard documents in 12 languages, and on Extend's own RealDoc-Bench, and publishes the labels, scorer and raw outputs on [GitHub](https://github.com/DocuPipe/DocuBench) so others can rerun it.\n\n## Contributions\n\n- [DocuPipe Vendor Profile](../../vendors/docupipe/) : Profile of DocuPipe's schema-based extraction platform, covering the parse, standardize, split, classify and review steps, credit pricing, the DocuBench results, hosting regions and certifications, the on-premises installation and vendor-reported customer outcomes.\n\nNitai joins other vendor-side [IDP Software contributors](../../authors/) who document platforms they build, among them [Gael Anaya](../../authors/gael-anaya/) of Claix and [Rayan Azmatally](../../authors/rayan-azmatally/) of ORKOM.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nitai-dean-idp-software-author", "canonical_source": "https://idp-software.com/authors/nitai-dean/", "published_at": "2026-10-06 14:37:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 14:48:17.689363+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-startups", "machine-learning", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Nitai Dean", "DocuPipe", "Hoss Inc.", "Uri Merhav", "Hoss Technologies", "DocuPanda", "Extend", "DocuBench"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nitai-dean-idp-software-author", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nitai-dean-idp-software-author.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nitai-dean-idp-software-author.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nitai-dean-idp-software-author.jsonld"}}