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Is it possible to extract text from pre-formatted documents? Let's say I have a document issued by the government, and I am only interested in the fields that h

• roel_v 11y ago
  "Maybe some image pre-processing would be needed?" No, a whole lot of pre-processing would be needed. It all depends on the exact layout - if your tolerances are tight you need much more logic than if you have, let's say, 2cm white space around one sentence you're after.
• leeoniya 11y ago
  If you'd be interested in using something like this as a paid API/service and have decent volume, feel free to contact me. I'm currently in pre-beta for API rollout of such a thing. In summary, you need templates that map the field positions -> meaningful keys so that you can get back useful data as json/csv/xml. I have some tools that are still being polished that automate much of the template creation and do a lot of the pre-proc for you. email is my username (at) gmail
• rashfael 11y ago
  (Disclaimer: I work for creatale GmbH) We open-sourced the library that we use for exactly that purpose: https://github.com/creatale/node-fv https://github.com/creatale/node-fv