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The model isn’t the hard part: the data pipeline I built to teach Gemma 4 E2B to read Indian GST invoices.

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This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 How I fine-tuned a small Gemma 4 model on a Mac to extract 22 invoice fields privately, and why the data strategy mattered more than the prompt. I needed to read Indian GST invoices without sending them to an external API every time. Gemma 4 E2B is an open multimodal model designed for local and edge deployment, with a 128K context window, native system prompt support, and an instruction-tuned variant that is usable without a giant serving stack. Google positions the small Gemma 4 models as practical for on-device and local workflows, not just as miniatures of the larger models. That made it a good fit for a problem I care about: structured invoice extraction where privacy, cost, and control matter as much as raw quality. At my document volume, a hosted model would have been simple to prototype but expensive to normalize around. Roughly speaking, a model like GPT-4o lands around a cent per invoice at this prompt and output length.…

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