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Author here: for my use case (converting scientific PDFs in bulk), nougat was the best solution, so I compared to it as the default. I also compare to naive text extraction further down.

Nougat is a great model, and converts a lot of PDFs very well. I just wanted something faster, and more generalizable.

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Reading your comment and parent's I think perhaps there is a mistake in the comparison chart on GitHub? It says nougat takes around 700 seconds per page and yours around 90. This doesn't match with parent's claim that it took him 30 seconds to run nougat on 6 pages.

Great work! I just tried it on Linux for System Administrators and it did a great job properly picking up on code and config text.

I noticed marker downloaded a PyTorch checkpoint called `nougat-0.1.0-small`, do you use nougat under the hood too or is that just a coincidence?

Yes, nougat is used as part of the pipeline to convert the equations (basically marker detects the equations then passes those regions to nougat). It's a great model for this.

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