Extracting PDF Tables on Apple Silicon…

Jun 2

Compare olmOCR-2 and PaddleOCR-VL for PDF table extraction on a Mac. See which open-source VLM handles merged cells and numeric tables better.

2 Comments

Me and My Big Mouth

Have you compared these results to asking qwen to turn the PDF into a single page HTML file?

I haven't. That is a good idea though. Do you personally see good results using qwen for this task?

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