Company
Date Published
Author
Vihar Kurama
Word count
3021
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The text discusses the need for PDF OCR scanners to extract and organize information from PDFs automatically. It highlights the importance of using AI-based solutions like Nanonets, which offers higher accuracy, greater flexibility, post-processing, and a broad set of integrations. The text covers various use-cases such as tax auditing, invoice information extraction, recruitment/hiring process, and document analysis and reporting. It also explains how to build an in-house PDF scanner using OCR and deep learning techniques, including data curation and pre-processing, data loading, OCR and deep learning model training, and post-processing. Additionally, it introduces Nanonets as a cloud-based PDF scanning solution with customizable rules, post-processing, fraud checks, table extraction, and ability to extract text from poorly scanned images.