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All of these are OSS, and you don't need to pay a dime to anyone.
[0]: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
For years I have been printing PDFs off on regular paper and then binding them into books. 1. Print it at work when no one is looking. 2. Get two rigid boards and squeeze the stack of paper together. I customarily use two wooden armrests that originally came from a garden-furniture lounger. 3. Squeeze the paper with just a 1/4-inch showing. 4. Use wood glue and with your finger working like a toothbrush, work the glu…
It seems straightforward except for the canvas strip (I assume this is part of the binding?), and whether you add thicker pages/boards on each side as covers.
Do you have any photos of the process, or at least of a finished product? Thanks!
I did this very recently for a 19th century book in German with occasionally some Greek. The method that produces the highest level of accuracy I've found is to use ImageMagick to extract each page as a image, then send each image file to Claude Sonnet (encoded as base64) with a simple user prompt like "Transcribe the complete text from this image verbatim with no additional commentary or explanations". The whole thi…
I made a high-quality scan of PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming), and worked on OCR'ing and incorporating that into an admittedly imperfect git repo of Markdown files. I used Scantailor to deskew and do other adjustments before applying Tesseract, via OCRmyPDF. I wrote notes for some of my process over at https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/releases/tag/v1.2 . I'd also tried ocrit, which uses App…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605 - Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
My understanding is that Gemini OCR is now considered state of the art and a material step forward in OCR accuracy
I've done this with a few documents from the French and Spanish national archives, which were originally provided as enormous non-OCRed PDFs but shrank to 10% the size (or less) after passage through archive.org and incidentally became full-text-searchable.
I did this very recently for a 19th century book in German with occasionally some Greek. The method that produces the highest level of accuracy I've found is to use ImageMagick to extract each page as a image, then send each image file to Claude Sonnet (encoded as base64) with a simple user prompt like "Transcribe the complete text from this image verbatim with no additional commentary or explanations". The whole thi…
Is it really necessary to split it into pages? Not so bad if you automate it I suppose, but aren't there models that will accept a large PDF directly (I know Sonnet has a 32MB limit)?
we wrote the post and created Pulse [2] for these exact use cases, feel free to reach out for more info!
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958 [2]: https://runpulse.com