Extract Table
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ocr table extraction
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
4 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive results and useful tool for turning table images into data
From 3 comments
This is really awesome. I have tried to solve that many times. I got close, with open CV and azure ML. I have even tried AWS Textract (~2 years ago). But this is the best…
BrandiATMuhkuh on HNI'm answering questions about Pandas (the Python data analysis framework) on StackOverflow from time to time. It's an exercise in patience, because many people will post…
w-m on HNPair this with a snipping tool and all sorts of people in banking would use it for a few hours a day, especially if it could paste to Excel or at least fill the clipboard in a…
MattGaiser on HN
Objections
Drops rows and mangles characters such as ø
From 2 comments
With this image[1] from this question on SO[2], the output[3] is missing the last row. FWIW, I've had the occasional miraculous-looking results from AWS Textract, but you do need…
nanis on HNNeat tool! There appears to be two minor issues in the last example. There is an encoding issue of "ø" characters ("Røkke"), and a column split appears to be missing betweeen…
pveierland on HN
Possible cost concerns with AWS fees for a free tool
From 1 comment
Really nice but... wondering how long this will last as a free tool given AWS fees.
BillSaysThis on HN
Privacy and infosec concerns for banking use
From 1 comment
I can only imagine what a pain it would be to get InfoSec approval for such a tool, unless it's doing everything on-device.
EveYoung on HN
Requests
Accept image URLs as input
From 1 comment
I'm answering questions about Pandas (the Python data analysis framework) on StackOverflow from time to time. It's an exercise in patience, because many people will post…
w-m on HN
Browser extension or plugin
From 2 comments
Should make it into a browser plugin, so annoying when web sites have tables in images.
z3t4 on HNCould do it with a Chrome extension. Add a button to the right click context menu and get the tabular data in the popup.
MattGaiser on HN
Output pandas code or copy-pasteable table
From 1 comment
I'm answering questions about Pandas (the Python data analysis framework) on StackOverflow from time to time. It's an exercise in patience, because many people will post…
w-m on HN
Questions
Does it detect tables in larger images?
From 1 comment
Does it also do table detection in a larger image and header/body classification?
visarga on HN
Is it open source or a paid service?
From 1 comment
Really cool. I'm interested to hear your plans for this. Are you planning to offer as a service/open source/etc.?
jnsie on HN
Alternatives named
AWS Textract
From 2 comments
Does it use textract directly? Or are you doing some preprocessing?
basmango on HNAwesome project! Can AWS Textract be used directly with curl to return text strings of an uploaded image?
ducktective on HN
Spark OCR and Adobe PDF Extract API
From 1 comment
Nice work putting together this tool. Have you seen either Spark OCR[1] from John Snow Labs or the Adobe PDF Extract API[2]? They both do a pretty good job a data extraction from…
greaterweb on HN
UI Path
From 1 comment
UI Path does this in a nice way
tuberelay on HN
extracttable.com
From 1 comment
You should consider extracttable.com P.s: I run the linked resource.
saradhi on HN