Optical Character Recognition

• Transformers vs. OCR: an in-depth comparison for Information Extraction (2023)
• Anh Tuan: Tutorial: OCR with PaddleOCR (PP-OCR) (2022)
• Neuralearn: Extract Tables from PDF and convert to Excel sheet with Paddle OCR text detection and recognition (2023)
• G. Kim et al: OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer (2022).
  • Donut github, huggingface
• PaddleOCR
  • Github quickstart
  • PaddleOCR: Unveiling the Power of Optical Character Recognition (2022)
• Hacker News: Our search for the best OCR tool (2019) (2022)
• OCR in 2024: Benchmarking Text Extraction/Capture Accuracy

Process unstructured data into JSon

• https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/ - It’s a thin wrapper over LLM + a few additional parsing / extraction capabilities
• https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer - applies constrained token generation over the logits - so more useful for HuggingFace powered models
• https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines - claims more features

Other

• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Agents
• Cognitive Science
• Computation Theory
• Computational Topology
• Language Models
• Meta Learning
• Probabilities and Statistics
• Robotics
• Self Driving Cars