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LiteParse : Open-Source Tool Finally Fixing OCR’s Biggest Table & Layout Flaws

LiteParse pairs fast text parsing with a two-stage agent pattern, falling back to multimodal models when tables or charts ...
GitHub

MinerU-Diffusion: Rethinking Document OCR as Inverse Rendering via Diffusion Decoding

Our long-term goal is to build efficient and reliable 2.5B diffusion-based decoding for document OCR. MinerU-Diffusion reframes document OCR as an inverse rendering problem and replaces slow, ...
GitHub

PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.

🔍 PDF parser for AI data extraction — Extract Markdown, JSON (with bounding boxes), and HTML from any PDF. #1 in benchmarks (0.90 overall). Deterministic local mode + AI hybrid mode for complex pages ...
IEEE

Python-Based Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Abstract: Optical Character Acknowledgment (OCR) stands as a transformative innovation at the crossing point of computer vision and machine learning, encouraging the extraction of printed data from ...