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Not sure what your budget is but I’ve used AWS for handling PDFs and it’s been pretty good at detecting content via boundary boxes.

• anamexis 3y ago
  AWS as in Amazon Web Services? And if so, can you be more specific?
  • navanchauhan 3y ago
    Here are some more options: * AWS Textract [0] * Microsoft Azure [1] * Google Cloud Vision [2] I personally use Azure, combined with OCR correction using GPT to convert a scan of my daily journal (Apple Notes creates a PDF that is nothing but a bunch of images) -> Markdown -> Extract tasks and then add them to my Reminders app using CalDav. Azure has one of the best OCR for handwritten text, but for normal document extraction (read: printed text), any service would do a reasonable job. [0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-extract-content-from-pdf-files-using-amazon-textract.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat... [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/solution-template-extract-data-from-pdf https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/solutio... [2] https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/pdf https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/pdf
    • swsieber 3y ago
      Could you explain how you use GPT for ocr correction?
      • navanchauhan 3y ago
        https://promptbase.com/prompt/ocr-text-fixer https://promptbase.com/prompt/ocr-text-fixer This is the prompt I bought from promptbase. You basically provide GPT with some examples on possible OCR errors, and then you give it the OCRed text and it tries to correct it
        • swsieber 3y ago
          Fascinating. Thanks!