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Parse Scanned PDFs for RAG with EasyOCR: Free OCR Gives You Words, Not a Document

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5quinquies] - Same 1974 scanned PDF, two engines.

Towards Data Science
Aug 12

Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5nonies] - Nature, plan, execute, synthesize: closing brick 1 with a dispatcher that reads each PDF’s nature and picks the method that fits, fitz, Docling, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, MinerU or Surya, then folds the outputs into one corpus The post Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From appeared first on Towards Data Science .

By angela shi
Towards Data Science
Aug 5

Building Document Structure with Loop Engineering: Recovering a PDF’s Outline from Body Typography for RAG

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5octies] - Rules propose, LLM validates: six deterministic signals on span-level typography surface heading candidates, one bounded loop keeps the real ones, and the same toc_df drops back into the RAG pipeline The post Building Document Structure with Loop Engineering: Recovering a PDF’s Outline from Body Typography for RAG appeared first on Towards Data Science .

By angela shi