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Great progress, but unfortunately, for our use case (converting medical textbooks from PDF to MD), the results are not as good as those by MinerU/PDF-Extract-Kit [1].

Also the collab link in the article is broken, found a functional one [2] in the docs.

[1] https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU [2] https://colab.research.google.com/github/mistralai/cookbook/...

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I've been searching relentlessly for something like this! I wonder why it's been so hard to find... is it the Chinese?

In any case, thanks for sharing.

Have you had a chance to compare results from MinerU vs LLM such a Gemini 2.0 or anthropic's native PDF tool?

Yes, i have. The problem with using just an LLM is that while it reads and understands text, but it cannot reproduce it accurately. Additionaly the textbooks I've mentioned have many diagrams and illustrations in them (e.g. books on anatomy or biochemistry). I don't really care about extracting text from them, I just need them extracted as images alongside the text, and no LLM does that.

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