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| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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tika-python
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Document Parsing - an unsolved problem?
At my previous job we had the same problem which we solved by using Tika. We called it on the server along with other stuff, but there is also a Python binding.
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Extract text from PDF
Tika is from Apache so yes its original code base is Java but it has bindings in other languages. Checkout Tika-Python!
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Extract text from documents
The Textractor instance is the main entrypoint for extracting text. This method is backed by Apache Tika, a robust text extraction library written in Java. Apache Tika has support for a large number of file formats: PDF, Word, Excel, HTML and others. The Python Tika package automatically installs Tika and starts a local REST API instance used to read extracted data.
txtai
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Build knowledge graphs with LLM-driven entity extraction
txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.
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Bootstrap or VC?
Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast.
With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy.
VC funding can have a snowball effect where you need more and more. Then you're in the loop of needing funding rounds to survive. The hope is someday you're acquired or start turning a profit.
I would say both have their pros and cons. Not all ideas have the luxury of time.
- txtai: An embeddings database for semantic search, graph networks and RAG
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Ask HN: What happened to startups, why is everything so polished?
I agree that in many cases people are puffing their feathers to try to be something they're not (at least not yet). Some believe in the fake it until you make it mentality.
With NeuML (https://neuml.com), the website is a simple HTML page. On social media, I'm honest about what NeuML is, that I'm in my 40s with a family and not striving to be the next Steve Jobs. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. For me, authenticity and being genuine is most important. I would say that being genuine has been way more of an asset than liability.
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Are we at peak vector database?
I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list.
There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021.
- Txtai: An all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search and LLM workflows
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Generate knowledge with Semantic Graphs and RAG
txtai is an all-in-one embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows.
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Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG
Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG.
Here's a couple examples:
- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai
- https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents
Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).
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RAG Using Unstructured Data and Role of Knowledge Graphs
If you're interested in graphs + RAG and want an alternate approach, txtai has a semantic graph component.
https://neuml.hashnode.dev/introducing-the-semantic-graph
https://github.com/neuml/txtai
Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai
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Ten Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2023
fwiw this link looks interesting, everyone
https://github.com/neuml/txtai
What are some alternatives?
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
sentence-transformers - Multilingual Sentence & Image Embeddings with BERT
layout-parser - A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis
faiss - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
py-pdf-parser - A Python tool to help extracting information from structured PDFs.
transformers - 🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
contextualized-topic-models - A python package to run contextualized topic modeling. CTMs combine contextualized embeddings (e.g., BERT) with topic models to get coherent topics. Published at EACL and ACL 2021.
CLIP - CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), Predict the most relevant text snippet given an image
paperai - 📄 🤖 Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers
paperetl - 📄 ⚙️ ETL processes for medical and scientific papers
Milvus - A cloud-native vector database, storage for next generation AI applications