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It's an interesting illustration of the state of the AI market that immediately after arguing that AI cannot do anything complex...we have an ad arguing that AI can actually do tho…

Hey, I'm the founder of Datalab (we released Chandra OCR). I see someone requested it below - happy to help you all get setup. I'm vik@datalab.to

Yes, we can sign a BAA!

Hi, I'm a founder of Datalab. I'm not trying to take away from the launch (congrats), just wanted to respond to the specific feedback. I'm glad you found a solution that worked for…

I assume you're using a PDF, and not the image you shared? You need to set force ocr or format lines to get inline math with a PDF (for images, we just OCR everything anyways, so y…

Hi, author of marker here - I tried your image, and I don't see the issues you're describing with the newest version of marker (1.7.5). I ran both with no setting specified, and wi…

Thanks for sharing! I'm training some models now that will hopefully improve this and more :)

Benchmarking is hard for markdown because of the slight formatting variations between different providers. With HTML, you can use something like TEDS (although there are issues wit…

I ran a partial benchmark against marker - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker . Across 375 samples with LLM as a judge, mistral scores 4.32, and marker 4.41 . Marker can infere…

I'm a fan of the team of Allen AI and their work. Unfortunately, the benchmarking of olmocr against marker ( https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker ) is quite flawed. Throughput - …

Docling is a great project, happy to see more people building in the space. Marker output will be higher quality than docling output across most doc types, especially with the --us…

Marker ( https://www.github.com/VikParuchuri/marker ) works kind of like this. It uses a layout model to identify blocks and processes each one separately. The internal format is a…

It's on the list to build - been focusing on quality pretty heavily lately.

Hey, I'm the author of marker - thanks for sharing. Most of the processing time is model inference right now. I've been retraining some models lately onto new architectures to impr…

Datalab | NYC | Full-time | Software Engineer and Head of Business Ops | $250k-$350k + 1.5-3% equity | https://www.datalab.to A significant % of useful data is locked away in tough…

Hi, I'm the author of surya ( https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya ) - working on improving speed and accuracy now. Happy to collaborate if you have specific page types it's not w…

Hi, I'm the author of marker - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker - from my testing, marker handles almost all the issues you mentioned. The biggest issue (that I'm working on …

Working on improving tables soon (I'm the author of marker)

This isn't specifically tuned for tables (more for general pdf to markdown), but it's worked for some people with similar use-cases - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

For PDF to markdown, I recently released V2 of my tool marker - https://github.com/vikparuchuri/marker

It should be possible to call a GPL library in a separate process (surya can batch process from the CLI) and avoid GPL - ocrmypdf does this with ghostscript.

I've benchmarked against google cloud ocr, but the results are on Twitter, not the repo yet - https://twitter.com/VikParuchuri/status/1765440195124691339 . The reason I didn't benc…

This looks great! You might be interested in surya - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). It does OCR (much more accurate than tesseract), layout analysis, and t…

I unfortunately haven't had time to benchmark against more than tesseract.

You may want to try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). I've only benchmarked against tesseract, but it outperforms it by a lot (benchmarks in repo). Happy to d…