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Extract JSON from Any Text in One Command

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Regex is fragile. Every new text format breaks your parser. You spend more time maintaining extraction logic than building features. There's a better way: send the text to an API, get clean JSON back. One command. Any format. The One-Liner curl -X POST https://api-service-wine.vercel.app/api/extract \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -d '{ "text": "John Smith, john@example.com, +1-555-0123, Software Engineer at Google", "schema": "contact" }' Response: { "data" : { "name" : "John Smith" , "email" : "john@example.com" , "phone" : "+1-555-0123" , "title" : "Software Engineer" , "company" : "Google" }, "confidence" : 0.98 } No regex. No parsing logic. No maintenance. Built-in Schemas The API comes with schemas for common data types: Receipts curl -X POST https://api-service-wine.vercel.app/api/extract \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -d '{ "text": "Target Store #1234 03/07/2026\nBananas $1.29\nMilk 2% $4.99\nEggs Large $3.4

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