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Re:Open-source tool helps you convert PDF documents, web pag... by h-jones on Saturday August 17, 2024 @02:42PM (#41276858)
Anyone know how this compares to GROBID [1]? I'm looking at alternatives to GROBID as I'm not super pleased with its outputs. GROBID has a lot of great features for journal papers (reference extraction / parsing), but I'm only interested in cleanly extracting the body. Also considering nougat [2] but I haven't tried it yet.

[1] https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat

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Re:Open-source tool helps you convert PDF documents, web pag... by xk_id on Sunday August 18, 2024 @07:38PM (#41286472)
Right, I'm in a similar situation here. I'm trying to read journal papers in the terminal. Previously, I've considered using pdf2htmlEX[0] to generate a layout-preserving HTML5 + CSS version of the PDF; then rendering it in the terminal using browsh (unfortunately terminal browsers like w3m don't support HTML5 + CSS) [1]. Between nougat and MinerU, they seem like a better option.

[0] https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ [1] https://www.brow.sh/

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