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Relatively new but impressively capable Python library (Apache 2 licensed) for extracting information from unstructured documents, such as PDFs, images, Word documents and many other formats.
I got some good initial results against a PDF by running "pip install 'unstructured[pdf]'" and then using the "unstructured.partition.pdf.partition_pdf(filename)" function.
There are a lot of moving parts under the hood: pytesseract, OpenCV, various PDF libraries, even an ONNX model - but it installed cleanly for me on macOS and worked out of the …
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