Hacker News with Generative AI: OCR

Liberate tabular data from scanned documents (blog.wzb.eu)
During the last months I often had to deal with the problem of extracting tabular data from scanned documents.
Data Extraction, OCR, Document Processing
6 points by leonry 30 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Adventures in OCR (medusis.com)
This past few weeks I've been working on OCRing an ancient book: a late 19th century edition of 18th century memoirs, in French: Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon.
OCR, Historical Research, Projects, Software
126 points by bambax 32 days ago | 45 comments
Show HN: High-accuracy OCR API for receipts/invoice with easy customisation (visionparser.com)
Welcome to the next level of document automation! Our innovative OCR API, powered by state-of-the-art Generative AI, gives you a flexible solution that fits your unique workflow and business requirements. Experience exceptional accuracy, speed, affordability and customisation.
OCR, Generative AI, Business, Automation, Software
21 points by salihkoodathil 35 days ago | 6 comments
Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown (llamaocr.com)
Upload an image to turn it into structured markdown
OCR, Markdown, AI, Tools
293 points by lapnect 63 days ago | 96 comments
Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS (textcapture.app)
Ever tried to quickly copy and paste some text, only to realize it's unselectable or embedded in a video or image? That happens to me all the time!
macOS, OCR, Software, Productivity Tools
24 points by auden_pierce 75 days ago | 41 comments
Show HN: PDF to MD by LLMs – Extract Text/Tables/Image Descriptives by GPT4o (github.com/yigitkonur)
Swift OCR: LLM Powered Fast OCR ⚡
Open Source, Language Models, OCR, Text Extraction
191 points by yigitkonur35 118 days ago | 91 comments
General OCR Theory: Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-End Model (huggingface.co)
Traditional OCR systems (OCR-1.0) are increasingly unable to meet people's usage due to the growing demand for intelligent processing of man-made optical characters.
OCR, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
31 points by ac1spkrbox 128 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs (github.com/Dicklesworthstone)
OCR, LLMs, Generative AI, Software, Open Source
479 points by eigenvalue 162 days ago | 172 comments
Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini (github.com/getomni-ai)
OCR, GPT, Open Source, Show HN, AI
246 points by themanmaran 179 days ago | 98 comments
Ask HN: How to OCR a PDF and preserve whitespace? (ycombinator.com)
OCR, PDF, Data Extraction, Programming
26 points by GirkovArpa 224 days ago | 17 comments
OCR Tools for Mac, iOS and Windows (rorybowcott.com)
OCR, Software, Mac, iOS, Windows
17 points by silkySloth 230 days ago | 5 comments
Extracting Words from Scanned Books: A Step-by-Step Tutorial with Python, OpenCV (github.com/feitgemel)
Computer Vision, Python, Text Extraction, Tutorials, OCR
20 points by thunderbong 248 days ago | 2 comments