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EasyOCR
Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.
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cognee
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docext
An on-premises, OCR-free unstructured data extraction, markdown conversion and benchmarking toolkit. (https://idp-leaderboard.org/)
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ragflow
RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs
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PaddlePaddle
PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning: Machine Learning Framework from Industrial Practice （『飞桨』核心框架，深度学习&机器学习高性能单机、分布式训练和跨平台部署）
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document-ai-samples
Sample applications and demos for Document AI, the end-to-end document processing platform on Google Cloud
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pipeline-docs-data-extractor
Discontinued (Let's build a) Robust pipeline for extracting structured data from various documents
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Show HN: Vectorless RAG
I will try it out. Is this the correct library? - https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous
I have used Gemini for OCR and it was indeed good. I also used GPT 3.5 and liked that too.
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Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
Seeing blind recommendations for AI slop is very disappointing for HN.
For OP, there is a library written in rust that can do exactly what you need with very high accuracy and performant.
https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous
Would need to OCR dependencies to get it to work on scanned books [2]
[1] https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous
[2] https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous?tab=readme-ov-file#-s...
- Extractous – Fast Text Extraction for GenAI with Rust and Apache Tika
- Show HN: Extractous, Rust based data extraction ~25x faster than unstructured-io
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The primary programming language of extractous is Rust.
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