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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 ...
BBC

Using past papers effectively - OCR English literature

Here you can find OCR past papers for GCSE English literature. Use the links below to download question papers and mark schemes. If you’re unsure whether you need Foundation or Higher papers, consult ...
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 ...