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TZubiriyesterday at 10:59 PM1 replyview on HN

OCR the PDF.

It's the ground truth, and it's not like it's more complex than parsing a pdf, at this point, the technology for OCR might even be better than PDF parsing, which is full of accidental instead of natural complexity.


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4pkjaitoday at 3:29 AM

I don’t really understand how OCRing a PDF could be more accurate than reading the text nodes.

Another thing to consider is OCR works well for English but not so well for other languages.

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