PEaCE: A Chemistry-Oriented Dataset for Optical Character Recognition on Scientific Documents

arXiv:2403.15724v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an established task with the objective of identifying the text present in an image. While many off-the-shelf OCR models exist, they are often trained for either scientific (e.g., formulae) or generic printed English text. Extracting text from chemistry publications requires an OCR model that is capable in both realms. Nougat, a recent tool, exhibits strong ability to parse academic documents, but is unable to parse tables in PubMed articles, which …

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