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It's an exercise in patience, because many people will post…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"28686017","MattGaiser","Pair 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…",{"value":60,"source":49,"evidence":61},"Users with tables in images, such as analysts and Stack Overflow askers",[62,63],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},[65],{"value":66,"source":67,"evidence":68},"AWS Textract","maker",[69,72],{"id":70,"by":11,"text":71},"28698699","Directly, no preprocessing! The postprocessing is concatenating all words that belong to the same cell.",{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},"28731653","Thanks! No, not that I know of, looks like for the AWS cli it needs to be in an S3 bucket, based on looking at this document:…","unknown","launched",{"praise":78,"objections":89,"requests":115,"questions":134,"alternatives":149},[79],{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Impressive results and useful tool for turning table images into data","commenter",[83,87,88],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"28688179","BrandiATMuhkuh","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…",{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},[90,101,108],{"value":91,"source":81,"evidence":92},"Drops rows and mangles characters such as ø",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"28688151","nanis","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…",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"28686984","pveierland","Neat 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…",{"value":102,"source":81,"evidence":103},"Possible cost concerns with AWS fees for a free tool",[104],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"28686203","BillSaysThis","Really nice but... wondering how long this will last as a free tool given AWS fees.",{"value":109,"source":81,"evidence":110},"Privacy and infosec concerns for banking use",[111],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"28691345","EveYoung","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.",[116,120,130],{"value":117,"source":81,"evidence":118},"Accept image URLs as input",[119],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},{"value":121,"source":81,"evidence":122},"Browser extension or plugin",[123,127],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"28686398","z3t4","Should make it into a browser plugin, so annoying when web sites have tables in images.",{"id":128,"by":57,"text":129},"28686170","Could do it with a Chrome extension. Add a button to the right click context menu and get the tabular data in the popup.",{"value":131,"source":81,"evidence":132},"Output pandas code or copy-pasteable table",[133],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},[135,142],{"value":136,"source":81,"evidence":137},"Does it detect tables in larger images?",[138],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"28694335","visarga","Does it also do table detection in a larger image and header\u002Fbody classification?",{"value":143,"source":81,"evidence":144},"Is it open source or a paid service?",[145],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"28686040","jnsie","Really cool. I'm interested to hear your plans for this. Are you planning to offer as a service\u002Fopen source\u002Fetc.?",[150,160,167,174],{"value":66,"source":81,"evidence":151},[152,156],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"28693783","basmango","Does it use textract directly? Or are you doing some preprocessing?",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"28691625","ducktective","Awesome project! Can AWS Textract be used directly with curl to return text strings of an uploaded image?",{"value":161,"source":81,"evidence":162},"Spark OCR and Adobe PDF Extract API",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"28686424","greaterweb","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…",{"value":168,"source":81,"evidence":169},"UI Path",[170],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"28691425","tuberelay","UI Path does this in a nice way",{"value":175,"source":81,"evidence":176},"extracttable.com",[177],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"28702534","saradhi","You should consider extracttable.com P.s: I run the linked resource.",{"comments":182,"answered":183,"key":184},10,6,[185,188,191],{"id":186,"text":187},"28691723","Thanks for the feedback! 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