This seems like a great tool to help migrate my notes out of OneNote
How can it help with OneNote?
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#22It'd be really great if there was something like this that also supported image extraction
My current workflow (for getting a magazine onto a website) is Calibre's HTMLZ export, then through Pandoc to markdown. It produces good enough Markdown to feed in to Hugo, and extracts images.
I've been through a number of options in the past and this is what I've settled on.
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#23Great stuff!
I have a question regarding the output of Nougat: Where do the "hallucinations" come from (just scroll through the Nougat output of the Think Python example to see what I mean)?
Nevermind, i just read it runs it through an LLM, so hallucinations are par for the course.
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#24Nice work. I tend to do most of my longer reading on an e-reader. PDFs, especially multi-column layouts, are a nightmare with the out-of-the-box offerings from Amazon Kindle or Pocketbook. This looks like something that'll improve my experience quite a lot.
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#25Nice! The only missing feature is conversion of plots to ASCII art ; )
This could be achieved with chafa.py :
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#26How good is tesseract for OCR nowadays? I tried using it a while back and it was nowhere near as good as the online offerings from AWS, Azure and GCP.
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#27Are there any other libraries or online services that does this well? I have a large number of PDFs from government agencies. I’ve tried AWS Textract and works fairly well.
https://www.handwritingocr.com is aimed specifically at handwriting, and will do that better than Textract and co, but works well for printed text too.
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#28What’s the best tool for writing with chatGPT so that markdown gets rendered properly? Copy pasting in google docs is always misery.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should mention that you are the CEO of Mathpix.
It actually doesn't matter. For my cases, I found Mathpix to be much more reliable than Nougat, for example. So, when you have hundreds of documents to convert a year and little time for manual labor on the results, paying a yearly "pro" subscription fee is worth it. However, it will really hit your pocket when you need to prepare datasets from thousands of PDFs... That's what you can't afford without a budget alloca…
While I can see that Mathpix might be the superior choice. What matters to me is that knowing the affiliation of the GP the comment has a very different feel to it.
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#30What’s the best tool for writing with chatGPT so that markdown gets rendered properly? Copy pasting in google docs is always misery.
I'd just use pandoc to convert to docx.