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I would pay for a simple, competent anything-to-markdown API. Something that could convert PDFs to high quality markdown with tables, etc. I'm using Document AI
by o_____________o 3y ago
I would pay for a simple, competent anything-to-markdown API. Something that could convert PDFs to high quality markdown with tables, etc. I'm using Document AI from Google right now and the ergonomics are awful.
- gcr 3y agoABBYY reader is a fine human-in-the-loop solution. It can at least output from PDF to ePub, and you can imagine going to markdown from there.
- j45 3y agoAnything to markdown is broader than part to markdown Since pdfs are created so many different ways, do you have some examples and links of the pdfs that are awful?
- whyleyc 3y agoIf you just need to convert the files have you thought about using Zamzar (https://dev.zamzar.com/ https://dev.zamzar.com/)? We have a file conversion API that supports DOC/DOCX/ODT/PDF/TEX to Markdown conversion in one line of cURL (or you programming language of choice). (Disclaimer: I'm the product lead for the Zamzar API).
- o_____________o 3y agoThanks I'll check it out. What do you do with PDFs that lock text in images, are you using ML/OCR? And as mentioned, tables?
- whyleyc 3y agoCurrently OCR support is limited to PDF > TXT conversion but we're hoping to add support for other output formats at some point. Feel free to shoot me an email at chris [at] zamzar [dot] com if you'd like to chat further.
- bravura 3y agohttps://pd3f.com/ https://pd3f.com/ is a good PDF converter for the use-cases I tested (academic papers).