marker VS pandoc_alfred

You may want to try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). I've only benchmarked against tesseract, but it outperforms it by a lot (benchmarks in repo). Happy to discuss.

You could also try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker for general PDF parsing (I'm also the author) - it seems like you're more focused on tables.

Hi HN - I made texify to convert equations to markdown/LaTeX for my project marker [1] then realized it could be generally useful.

Texify converts equations and surrounding text to Markdown, with embedded LaTeX (MathJax compatible).

You can either use a GUI to select equations (inline or block) from PDFs and images to convert, or use the CLI to batch convert images. It works on CPU, GPU, or MPS (Mac).

The closest open source comparisons are pix2tex and nougat - marker is more accurate than both of them for this task. However, nougat is more for entire pages, and pix2tex is more for block equations (not inline equations and text).

I trained texify for 2 days on 4x A6000 GPUs - I was pleasantly surprised how far I could get with limited GPU resources by reframing the problem to use small parameter counts/images.

Texify is licensed for commercial use, with the weights under CC-BY-SA 4.0. Fine them here - https://huggingface.co/vikp/texify .

See the texify repo for more details, benchmarks, how to install, etc.

[1] https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

Both are tools to convert pdfs into Latex or Markup with latex formulas. Maybe that helps

This can be made smoother using Automator applets or something like this Alfred workflow: https://chris-grieser.de/pandoc_alfred

Here is the link to the notion site. You can use any other markdown app, the only "issue" I see is that you need to buy the Alfred power-pack. However, if you are already using Alfred, I think you will benefit from it.

By the way I found this and I think you may also find it useful Pandoc-Alfred-Scrivener

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