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Re: Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files

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Post by rpedela » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 3:28 PM UTC

trez wrote: post #9

rpedela wrote: post #7

Can I assume API keys are on the roadmap? I don't particularly like using my username and password.

Yes, we'd like to increase security on each releases. It should be available in one of the next release.

Great!

Re: Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files

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Post by antrover » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 3:43 PM UTC

Nice. Are you using the Tessaract OCR lib at the core of the extraction?

Re: Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files

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Post by trez » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

antrover wrote: post #12

Nice. Are you using the Tessaract OCR lib at the core of the extraction?

yes we do

Re: Show HN: An API to extract texts from images and PDF files

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Post by sebg » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

trez wrote: post #10

sebg wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks good - does it do data tables? That's a big issue and something I've heard about (run into) many times...

Thanks for your comment! We would really appreciate if you could explain us in more details problems you faced. I am sending you an email if that's ok for you to discuss that.