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Interesting approach! One question though: can the model do column detection?

The first OCR example returns output that does not detect the article columns - the bounding box is the entire first line.

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It can, you could try prompting the model to use object detection vision and text extraction, we realized when we purely extract text it does amazing at word/sentence level bounds since the text acts as the anchor. However, when you treat it as a object detection problem, it sees that chunk of text as a segment allowing you the extract it as one column bound. Give that a try.

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