Show HN: BetterOCR combines and corrects multiple OCR engines with an LLM
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#2Cool!
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#3Interesting, will see how it performs
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#4Is the OpenAI key paid-only?
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#5I’ve been looking for an OCR engine and hoped that using LLMs would improve their output.
Looks great! I’ll give it a go.
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#6Awesome - 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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#7Is the OpenAI key paid-only?
Similarly, is there any half decent general LLM that can run on consumer hardware?
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#8Awesome - 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!
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.
Re: Show HN: BetterOCR combines and corrects multiple OCR engines with an LLM
#9Awesome - 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!
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