Show HN: Open-source, cross platform document data extraction with no OCR
https://github.com/NanoNets/docext
The traditional pipeline for unstructured data extraction typically follows these steps: 1. Image → OCR Model (e.g., Google Vision) → Layout Model (e.g. Surya) → LLM → Final Answer However, this can be streamlined using a Vision-Language Model (VLM): 2. Image → VLM → Final AnswerRecently VLMs have improved a lot for OCR and document understanding tasks, specifically the Qwen-2.5-VL series. We...