llama_parse VS clip-retrieval

I'm part of the team that build LlamaParse. It's net improvement compare to other PDF->Structured Text extractors (I build several in the past, includig https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr).

For character extraction, LlamaParse use a mixture of OCR / character extraction from the PDF (it's the only parser I'm aware of that address some of the buggy PDF font issues, check the 'text' mode to see raw document before reconstruction), use a mixture of heuristic and Machine learning models to reconstruct the document.

Once plug with a Recursive retrieval strategy, allow you to get Sota result on question answering over complexe text (see notebook: https://github.com/run-llama/llama_parse/blob/main/examples/...).

AMA

The tool clip-retreival lets you filter those 400 million images to whatever subsets you're interested in --- for example, 10,000 images of (mostly) handwriting.

Hehe, well you know, PR welcome, the front end is 500 lines https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/blob/main/front/sr...

Other people have done a few alternate front ends already

This one is meant to be functional, but could sure be made prettier

This might work: https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval .

HaveIBeenTrained uses clip retrieval to search the Laion-5B and Laion-400M image datasets. These are currently the largest public text-to-image datsets, and they are used to train models like Stable Diffusion, Imagen, among many others.

Done https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/commit/53e3383f58b...

Using clip for searching is better than direct text indexing for a variety of reasons but here for example because it matches better what stable diffusion sees

Based on OpenAI's CLIP and the clip-retrieval library (https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval), I've built an end-to-end demo for a semantic and similarity image search engine. It's incredibly powerful for finding similar images amongst large image datasets, or just submitting text/natural language queries and finding the most relevant images in your dataset. Really useful tool for introspection into large datasets before annotation or ML work begins. This could potentially be used to filter or downsize your datasets by several orders of magnitude and make annotation and ML work easier and less costly.

Checkout the demo here:

http://ec2-52-39-251-116.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/

And you can checkout our website or email me for updates and email list, etc.:

https://machineperception.co

Assuming you have an NVIDIA GPU, you can build a semantic search engine by indexing CLIP embeds (image or text).

https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval