Published some notes on Docling, a rather nice MIT...

Published some notes on Docling, a rather nice MIT licensed Python PDF document / table extraction library from IBM https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/3/docling/

Like 3 November at 5:59 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

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Matt Campbell

@simon How does the Markdown output from Docling compare with the HTML that you've gotten out of Gemini for PDF documents? Does Docling do a good job of recognizing headings, lists, etc.?

3 November at 8:23 | Open on toot.cafe

Simon Willison

@matt I tried it on two documents so far and it looked reasonable, but I've not done a remotely robust comparison of it yet

3 November at 13:38 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Xing Shi Cai

@simon Any comments on it's output's quality?

3 November at 13:10 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

Simon Willison

@xsc I tried it on two PDDs and it looked OK, which isn't nearly enough testing for me to say anything useful!

3 November at 13:36 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

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