PIpierre·Jul 14, 2020Submission
Show HN: Parsr v1.0 with enhanced heading detection and table detection
4 points · Open discussionaxa-group
Parsr
JavaScript2020–2024
axa-group / Parsr
Parsr
Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
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Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
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6 sourcesAlso in the extracting-structured-data-from-PDFs solution space, there is Parsr which was recently posted on HN: https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22035258
It's based on a pipeline of various js modules and pluggable backends (e.g. tesseract, GCP cloud vision, Abbyy API, etc.)
For tables with numbers in them, it worked pretty well, but I'm yet to find a tool that can parse/understand documents where the entire page is a table layout with lots of merged cells. I think even for humans it's hard to understand the structure in those cases...
In Table Detection and Extraction Using Deep LearningTransforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
1 points · Open discussionParsr Transforms Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
3 points · Open discussionThere is no inputs and outputs example in the repo to allow you to see rapidly what is possible. We should definitively add them.
For a quick test you can either run the jupyter notebook
https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr/tree/master/demo/jupyter-...
or run the docker with the UI interface and just drag and drop documents / play with the configuration
docker run -t -p 8080:80 axarev/parsr-ui-localhost:latest
In Show HN: Parsr – A toolchain to transform documents into usable structured text