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Awesome - I'm a dabbler, but any thoughts on best engines for PDF tables? I've got tons of PDFs with similar tables embedded deep in them, but all formatted slightly differently. Seems like it should be easy....but nope!
PDF -> Markdown looks like a pretty great use case
Just added box detection support -- maybe I'll start from here https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR#-box-detection
I’ve been looking for an OCR engine and hoped that using LLMs would improve their output. Looks great! I’ll give it a go.
Interesting, will see how it performs
Cool!
Any plans to add other OCR engines?
Wow, this is just up my alley. I started a side project recently using Tesseract to read book spines for inventory purposes and hooked it up to ChatGPT to clean up the text, having it "fill in the blanks" so to speak. I'll definitely give this a go, having using two OCR engines I should get better results. Any plans to add other OCR engines?
- https://github.com/mindee/doctr
- https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr
- https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR (honestly I don't know Mandarin so I'm a bit stuck)
- https://github.com/clovaai/donut -- While it's primarily an "OCR-free document understanding transformer," I think it's worth experimenting with. Think I can sort this out by letting the LLM reason through it multiple times (although this will impact performance)
- yesterday got a suggestion to consider https://github.com/kakaobrain/pororo -- don't think development is still active but the results are pretty great on Korean text
Awesome - I'm a dabbler, but any thoughts on best engines for PDF tables? I've got tons of PDFs with similar tables embedded deep in them, but all formatted slightly differently. Seems like it should be easy....but nope!
It does what you are looking for
Awesome - I'm a dabbler, but any thoughts on best engines for PDF tables? I've got tons of PDFs with similar tables embedded deep in them, but all formatted slightly differently. Seems like it should be easy....but nope!
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Similarly, is there any half decent general LLM that can run on consumer hardware?
Thinking to add LLaMA or other OSS LLM models soon
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Are you able to highlight the text on the PDF? If so, I highly recommend PDF2TXT to extract text from PDFs. Would require some parsing work on your part to convert it back to a table, but zero chance of error from inference since it’s using text extraction. If you can’t highlight the text, it won’t work.
You can make any PDFs 'highlightable' with GitHub.com/ocrmypdf