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   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   What is your use case?
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   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   In the OCR world this is known as offline OCR (OCR on the bitmap) vs online OCR (strokes information). Offline is way harder than online.
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   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   It's not a stupid question. You need equation detection + equation OCR. Mathpix only does the equation OCR part. I've worked on this (for a PDF to HTML application), mail is in profile if you're interested.
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   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   I mean leads in the form of listings contained in pdf documents. The problem is that parsing/extracting that data is non-trivial. In general: - pdf to Salesforce - pdf to Excel - pdf to database
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   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   Like leads "locked" in pdf documents?
6. 36.▲
   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   I've been working on a prototype that does exactly this. Sent you an email.
7. 37.▲
   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   Are you still interested in this? I might be able to help.
8. 38.▲
   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   Or self-host it and never send out any data. (I'm offering a self-hosted solution for OCR)
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   by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

   Just to be sure that we're talking about the same thing, by "custom parser" I meant implementing your own barebones "zonal OCR" functionality with just the features that are needed for the specific problem. I think
10. 40.▲
    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    I would be interested in exchanging notes, send me an email if you're up to it.
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    If you're looking for full page OCR, check out ocrmypdf (uses Tesseract). If you want to extract data out of documents/forms then you need to develop your own solution (I'm doing work in this area) or use expensive packages l
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    There are two options for this, one is online and the other is offline handwriting recognition. Online is when you have info about the strokes (e.g. writing on a tablet or on a HTML5 canvas), offline is when you don't anything other th
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    They use multiple OCR engines. Some developed in-house and some proprietary ones. A blog post mentions I.R.I.S. as one of the proprietary ones. They don't offer OCR publicly, instead, they generate a list of possible candidates to matc
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    It uses LSTM for the line recognizer.
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    I wouldn't say that full page OCR is trivial. Using an opensource solution (99% based on Tesseract) is going to get you ok-ish results if your input is relatively clean (no complex layout, scanned documents from a flatbed scanner, stan
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Some thoughts (adding to staticautomatic's post): 1. There is no dataset/competition like ImageNet for OCR. 2. Most people/conferences/universities are going after natural images and "computer vision" problems.
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Well it is more complex than it appears. Extracting data from documents requires a solution which uses OCR but is a different product (e.g. ABBYY FlexiCapture). This is most commonly referred to as zonal OCR and comes with the added functio
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    ABBYY has dominated the field for many years (decades really) and still outperforms every solution out there. OmniPage by Nuance is probably the second best. Preprocessing the images (OCR pipeline) is very important for OCR. For generic sca
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    For an opensource solution that uses Tesseract, check out ocrmypdf: https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    I'm offering a self-hosted solution, mail is in profile.
21. 51.▲
    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Any recommendations for similar looking stylesheets?
22. 52.▲
    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    What kind of pricing schema would you prefer for this? Monthly or one time payment?
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Interesting, I have implemented some version of the above in the past (albeit not in an opensource/free solution). If you have a specific document/data extraction need in mind, you can email me a sample and I will let you know if
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    I'm working on it, email me for early access.
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Can you elaborate? What is the use case?
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Really like this! I'm working on something similar, a generic PDF to HTML converter that enables reflowing of documents on a mobile device. Any recommendations for HTML templates other than the distill.pub one?
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    I just visited Project Gutenberg and tried opening a few books. There seems to be a HTML option, what did you mean?
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    This is great! How do you detect the fields? Are you using image processing?
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    Cool project! Shameless plug: if you need the opposite, i.e. getting text/structured data out of filled PDF forms (or any kind of PDF document), feel free to contact me.
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    by ocrcustomserver 9y ago

    If you deal with pdf documents, I might be able to help. Mail is in profile.