chezmo
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
I really like the idea and I think there might be a lot of demand for this kind of stuff. Did you already do consulting work for customers with this kind of problem? That would be a great way to kick-start the business.
Comment · 9 years ago
love the idea! Curious how this will evolve once people start adding more commands.
Comment · 10 years ago
Awesome feedback!
So far, it's the user who would need to decide which document goes to which parser. A routing engine is however on our list and probably be one of the next features to add.
Regarding the stats, I'm not sure yet as we just launched. OCR was however one of the first things early users asked for.
For the 'unpaper' function we are using http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/unpaper.1.ht...
I would love to discuss things more in detail with you. Could you contact me contact [at] docparser.com please?
Comment · 10 years ago
For scanned images we use https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract. For text based PDFs we pull the text directly from the file and all languages are supported.
Comment · 10 years ago
We do position based text extraction. We add however an 'unpaper' function which tries to correct misalignments and increases the quality of the scan.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's right! The user defines a rectangular area and we then extract the raw text based on the position. For table extraction we use tabula.java under the hood.
Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks for the heads up, I just fixed it! mailparser.io is my other product which I launched a couple of years ago. Customers kept asking for document parsing capabilities so I thought it would be a good idea to start Docparser. For the FAQ I copied some text and apparently forgot to properly proof read it :)
I thought I should mention that we also launched a sister-product called https://docparser.com two years. Docparser is basically like Mailparser, but for documents (PDFs or scanned documents).