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How are you sending tabular data in a reliable way. And what is the source document type? I'm trying to solve this for complex financial-related tables in PDFs

How are you sending tabular data in a reliable way. And what is the source document type? I'm trying to solve this for complex financial-related tables in PDFs right now.

Oras 3y ago
Amazon Textract, to get tables, format them with Python as csv then send to your preferred AI model.
- cpursley 3y ago
  Thanks. How does Textract compare to come of the common cli utilities like pdftotext, tesseract, etc (if you made a comparison)?
  - Oras 3y ago
    I did, none of the open source parser worked well with tables. I had the following issues: - missing cells. - partial identification for number (ex: £43.54, the parser would pick it up as £43). What I did to compare is drawing lines around identified text to visualize the accuracy. You can do that with tesseract.
    - cpursley 3y ago
      Interesting. Did you try MS's offering (Azure AI Document Intelligence). Their pricing seems better than Amazon.
      - Oras 3y ago
        Not yet but planning to give it a try and compare with textract.