Parsr
Data
document parsing
SHOW HN2020
182points
22comments
#317of 3,028 in 2020
Top 11%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful packaging as a Docker toolchain with a local GUI
From 1 comment
This seems like a super useful way to package and deliver this kind of tool chain! I’ve been looking for PDF parsers on and off the last couple of years, and have found it…
pininja on HN
Comprehensive toolkit for data extraction
From 1 comment
That looks like a great comprehensive tool kit for data extraction. I understand the bundle is licensed under Apache, I'm curious to check on the needs/rules-to-follow to include…
udayrddy on HN
Objections
Limited extraction methods; complex nested tables not handled well
From 1 comment
I was really excited to try this until I saw that the only extraction methods are pdfminer, finereader, and tesseract. I was hoping there was something you rolled on your own.…
staticautomatic on HN
Requests
Support for HTML input
From 2 comments
It appears images and PDFs are the currently supported document types. If so, is there an opportunity to support web pages? We have quite a few verbose legal documents that…
hbcondo714 on HNWe plan to support HTML as an input (its in our backlog). If possible you can DM me one of your document and we can make sure it work.
pierre on HN
Example inputs and outputs
From 2 comments
Are there any example inputs and outputs to quickly see what's possible?
anilgulecha on HNThere 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…
pierre on HN
Additional cloud OCR vendors
From 2 comments
We also support Google Document understanding API for OCR, with support for other cloud OCR vendor coming soon. We also support pdf.js as an alternative to pdfminer.
pierre on HNThis is an interface that wrap multiple document tools into a common API, allowing you for example to switch your OCR from Tesseract to Google Cloud Vision or Abby without…
pierre on HN
Questions
How it differs from Apache Tika
From 2 comments
Apache Tika is a powerful text extraction engine. Why this over Tika?
kresten on HNThat's a really good question! I've been using for quite some time Tika as the Swiss-army knife for text extraction. They don't seem to be even using Tika behind the hood as any…
six2seven on HN
Whether it is a unified API over existing tools
From 2 comments
Hmmm, looks useful. The list of dependencies is basically a who's who of doing various types of document parsing. Is this basically just a unified interface that wraps them all…
ZeroCool2u on HNThis is an interface that wrap multiple document tools into a common API, allowing you for example to switch your OCR from Tesseract to Google Cloud Vision or Abby without…
pierre on HN
Alternatives named
Apache Tika
From 1 comment
Apache Tika is a powerful text extraction engine. Why this over Tika?
kresten on HN
Readability and Diffbot
From 1 comment
Is the HTML processed using a DOM / visual parser? I’m looking for something like Readability or Diffbot that can extract rich text / markdown from web pages.
bhl on HN
Pandoc
From 1 comment
Is there some reason that pandoc[1] won't work for your use case? [1]https://pandoc.org/
PenguinCoder on HN
Amazon Textract
From 1 comment
I was really excited to try this until I saw that the only extraction methods are pdfminer, finereader, and tesseract. I was hoping there was something you rolled on your own.…
staticautomatic on HN
extracttable.com
From 1 comment
Shameless plug: Would you like to join the club of happy customers at https://extracttable.com - API to extract tabular data from images and PDFs without worrying about…
udayrddy on HN