It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
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Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#62I still couldn't find a tool for a difficult problem to solve. I have some magazines in PDF, with layouts in two columns, etc. I want them to be transformed into Markdown. I know, it should identify automatically the two columns, different layouts, etc. I am not desiring something perfect - I can fix if ther are some errors, but so far nothing has come with a good result.
The built-in apple preview application does exactly what you want..
It just looses bold etc.
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#63I’ll join some other commenters, to add my favorite difficult pdf problem that I haven’t found a ready to use (even paid) solution for: extract key value pairs from a filled form such as this medical claims form: https://imgur.com/a/EJDi7L7 There are two levels of difficulty: the starting file could be an image (pdf or png or jpg), which is the most difficult scenario. The slightly easier one is where it’s a text-bas…
This could be a paid option for parsing forms (not sure about ocr): https://demos.textcontrol.com/chapter/topic/PDF/PDFFormData
https://www.textcontrol.com/technologies/pdf/
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dev here for the above stirling pdf app, Please raise features like this as a feature request github issue ticket and we can try address it in future!
I would do exactly what you have done here if I were the dev of the said app. But with the luxury of being an outsider, a user has expressed an inconvenience and it seems to make sense, then if I were to be the dev of the app here, wouldn't I go and create the ticket in whatever system with a link to this post instead of asking the user of the app to follow the red tape? I know there are places where this is not ince…
I tend to agree. As an open source dev myself, I avoid asking folks to create issues, as it puts a burden on the user. I’ve see some highly respected open source leads so this, and I’m
not faulting them, as I think they’re coming from a good place; it may be a difference of opinion on what’s best practice.
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#65It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
Does that one have a name? I’m a MacOS transplant and have never gotten terribly familiar with the territory. Thanks!
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#66It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
Does that one have a name? I’m a MacOS transplant and have never gotten terribly familiar with the territory. Thanks!
Preview is the app on macOS that lets you view and even edit PDF files.
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
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Have you tried Azure AI Document Intelligence? In theory it's exactly this...
I second this, that or have you tried GPT-4 Vision or Donut?
Still waiting for GPT4V but doubt it will do this. Yes I’ve tried Donut and other options but this is a very gnarly problem.
One option is to extract text blocks along with their coordinates (unstructured.io gives this, probably based on another pkg because it’s basically a container for many pigs). Then do the same with a blank template, and you then have an algorithmic problem of matching the filled values spatially with the key locations from the template.
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dev here for the above stirling pdf app, Please raise features like this as a feature request github issue ticket and we can try address it in future!
I would do exactly what you have done here if I were the dev of the said app. But with the luxury of being an outsider, a user has expressed an inconvenience and it seems to make sense, then if I were to be the dev of the app here, wouldn't I go and create the ticket in whatever system with a link to this post instead of asking the user of the app to follow the red tape? I know there are places where this is not ince…
I see what you're saying and for simple features I agree
However Without the OP creating the ticket there can be no feedback look on the feature.
If i wanted it tested for their usecase, there input and confirmation on if its what they wanted and improvements for the workflow etc..
If I base the whole feature on this comment it could end up only doing half a job. Id rather have that communication loop open!
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second this, that or have you tried GPT-4 Vision or Donut?
Still waiting for GPT4V but doubt it will do this. Yes I’ve tried Donut and other options but this is a very gnarly problem. One option is to extract text blocks along with their coordinates (unstructured.io gives this, probably based on another pkg because it’s basically a container for many pigs). Then do the same with a blank template, and you then have an algorithmic problem of matching the filled values spatiall…
I'm fairly confident GPT-4V will do this just fine, tbh.
You just need to extract each of the elements into a structured JSON or something, right?
I'll try with your example later today.
Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
#70It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
Does that one have a name? I’m a MacOS transplant and have never gotten terribly familiar with the territory. Thanks!
preview.app