OCRFlux is an open source, lightweight tool designed to convert PDF files and images into clearly structured documents in Markdown format. It is developed by the ChatDOC team , based on the 3B parameters of the multimodal macromodel construction , able to run efficiently on ordinary GPU hardware (such as GTX 3090).
OCRFlux has three significant advantages over other open source OCR tools:
- Excellent layout processing capabilities: accurate parsing of multi-column formats, complex tables, support for automatic merging of content across pages
- Highly accurate recognition: Edit Distance Similarity (EDS) score of 0.967, far exceeding competitors such as olmOCR-7B
- Developer Friendly: Provides concise command line operation with Docker containerized deployment method
The tool is especially suitable for users who need to deal with academic papers, technical documents and other complex typesetting content, and its output Markdown file retains the reading order and structured information of the original document.
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