Google documentai costs 1.5$ per 1000 which is probably better in quality and speed.
Google documentai costs 1.5$ per 1000 which is probably better in quality and speed.
I’ve been there, implementing a way to linearise text from a document with pages with 1, 2 or 3 columns, some of them in landscape is a nightmare. And that’s not even considering equations.
In the end it’s way easier to use a specialised model, trained by other people to do exactly what I need.
I thought it's actually a fun problem! Some of the naive solutions (based on alternating horizontal/vertical recursion) are quite elegant and cool.
What was not so fun was to make it work reliably. I ended up with piles of ugly code to handle edge cases, and issues kept piling up. So in the end I was happy to use someone else’s solution.
So, maybe it can be tuned for your usecase but with that kind of investment €3.5 for 1000 pages is a bargain...