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Enhances Tesseract OCR output using LLMs (local or API) for error correction, smart chunking, and markdown formatting of scanned PDFs

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2024-08-09 · latest 2025-02-14

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  1. …and to improve formatting, as in my open source project which has been shared before as a Show HN: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr This process also makes it extremely easy to tweak/customize simply by editing the…
    comment by eigenvalue · 2025-02-14 · in OCR4all
  2. I made a site like that, fixmydocuments.com Also check out my open source project for that: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr
    comment by eigenvalue · 2025-02-12 · in ElevenReader
  3. …expect pretty similar performance. The author here seems to have some better prompts than we do: https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr/blob/main... In our approach, we're just zero shot asking for markdown from the image. Vs…
    comment by themanmaran · 2024-08-09 · in Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
  4. …can run locally which accept image input. Phi-3-Vision [3], LLaVA [4], MiniCPM-V [5], etc. [1] - https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr/blob/main... [2] - https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#de... [3] -…
    comment by daemonologist · 2024-08-09 · in Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs