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- Of course, this step can be omitted if the documents already have text embeddings. However, it is often necessary to read tables or scanned documents, for example. In our software solution, the users can decide for any project if they want to use text embeddings, Tesseract, or a commercial OCR.

- With page segmentation or also called layout analysis, we refer to the division of a document into separate parts.

- This is done with our own trained model because we couldn’t achieve the needed outcome with off-the-shelf software like Tesseract or Abbyy FineReader.