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OCR, layout analysis, reading order, table recognition in 90+ languages

18 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2024-01-12 · latest 2025-02-16

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  1. …two don't float your boat. All of these are OSS, and you don't need to pay a dime to anyone. [0]: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya [1]: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR [2]: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle
    comment by __rito__ · 2025-02-16 · in Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?
  2. pypdfium2 is a great choice and a solid piece of software! You might want to look into https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya as an alternative to tesseract. Yes, it's associated with a commercial company, but as you long as you aren't a…
    comment by madisonmay · 2025-02-15 · in Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction
  3. …but not from scanned PDFs. Also has much better performance for English than Indian languages. [0]: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
    comment by __rito__ · 2025-02-07 · in Why LLMs still have problems with OCR
  4. …better for docs where the PDF orde ris bad - OCR is a lot better, we train our own model, surya - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya - References and links - Better equation conversion (soon including inline)
    comment by vikp · 2025-02-06 · in Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything
  5. Surya is a great open source toolkit for table parsing, layout analysis and OCR: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
    comment by m_ke · 2025-01-11 · in Nvidia-Ingest: Multi-modal data extraction
  6. …useful data is locked away in tough-to-parse formats like PDFs. We build tools to extract it, like https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (15k Github stars), and https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker (19k stars). We also run an inference…
    comment by vikp · 2025-01-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
  7. I’ve used Surya ( https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya ) before. It is very good (on par with Google Vision, potentially better layout analysis), but yours is a challenging use case. I wonder if it would be useful.
    comment by bondeau · 2024-12-20 · in Show HN: Adventures in OCR
  8. Hi, I'm the author of surya ( https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya ) - working on improving speed and accuracy now. Happy to collaborate if you have specific page types it's not working on. For modern/clean documents it benchmarks very…
    comment by vikp · 2024-08-09 · in Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs
  9. Surya https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya and Marker https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker
    comment by budududuroiu · 2024-07-10 · in From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs
  10. LLMWhisperer from Zipstack at https://llmwhisperer.unstract.com/ or https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya will do a good job for you. LLMWhisperer has some nice tooling where they can fall back to OCR as well forcing text extraction from…
    comment by brianjking · 2024-06-08 · in Ask HN: How to OCR a PDF and preserve whitespace?
  11. checkout https://github.com/mindee/doctr or https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya for something practical multimodal llm would of course blow it all out the water, so some llama3-like model is probably SOTA in terms of what you can run…
    comment by lyu07282 · 2024-06-07 · in How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
  12. Would this be able to incorporate the models from Surya — https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
    comment by mehulashah · 2024-05-08 · in New open source AI model for document segmentation and unstructured ETL
  13. This looks great! You might be interested in surya - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). It does OCR (much more accurate than tesseract), layout analysis, and text detection. The OCR is slow on CPU (working on it), but…
    comment by vikp · 2024-04-08 · in Show HN: Beyond text splitting – improved file parsing for LLMs
  14. …if it is feasible to bundle it all up for web. See also: https://github.com/RajSolai/TextSnatcher / https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
    comment by ignoramous · 2024-03-30 · in Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
  15. You may want to try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). I've only benchmarked against tesseract, but it outperforms it by a lot (benchmarks in repo). Happy to discuss. You could also try…
    comment by vikp · 2024-02-20 · in LlamaCloud and LlamaParse