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chezmo

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    Great to hear that you like Mailparser and that you are using it since a couple of years already! I'm the founder of Mailparser and reading your comment made my day! :-) I thought …

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    I really like the idea and I think there might be a lot of demand for this kind of stuff. Did you already do consulting work for customers with this kind of problem? That would be …

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    love the idea! Curious how this will evolve once people start adding more commands.

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    Awesome feedback! So far, it's the user who would need to decide which document goes to which parser. A routing engine is however on our list and probably be one of the next featur…

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    For scanned images we use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract . For text based PDFs we pull the text directly from the file and all languages are supported.

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    We do position based text extraction. We add however an 'unpaper' function which tries to correct misalignments and increases the quality of the scan.

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    That's right! The user defines a rectangular area and we then extract the raw text based on the position. For table extraction we use tabula.java under the hood.

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    Thanks for the heads up, I just fixed it! mailparser.io is my other product which I launched a couple of years ago. Customers kept asking for document parsing capabilities so I tho…

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    Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?

    This weekend I waded through a couple of old projects and I thought about all the stuff I built over the years. I posted a couple of "Show HN" projects a couple of years ago and it…

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    Hey Guys! I'm the founder of mailparser.io and I'm super happy to see this showcase of Michael on Medium. Please let me know if you have any questions about mailparser.io or how to…

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    I love the fact that you don't need to add another app to your startup stack.

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