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TimurKramar

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TimurKramar··on [dead]
If you've ever extracted json data from files using llms, you know the pain in deciding if you can trust it or not. We found a solution that works well for our users: we track the full lineage of every extracted filed from the source document to the structured output. Our approach takes into consideration ocr (parsing), extraction and transformations steps.

Results come with confidences attached, so you know which fields need a double check and approval from a human. And this human-in-the-loop mechanism, where humans only check low confidence results,. can be used effectively to speed up existing backoffice operations that deal with document workflows.

You can try it right now at openparser.dev , or read this (https://www.openparser.dev/blog/how-openparser-uses-lineage) on how we built it and why one-shotting an llm to extract data from documents simply didn't work for us and our users.

oh and if you want to build with full lineage yourself, we opensourced it: https://github.com/eigenpal/openparser/tree/main/packages/li...

TimurKramar··on Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
yeah, the value is the price. And its not cheap because its open, its just the cost of running GPUs. Perhaps other providers have similar costs, just 1000% margins on top. this is just pure GPU cost with basically no markup.

But being open-weight model, there is no vendor-lockin. if you stop liking the api endpoint, or we were to increase prices, just run the model yourself elsewhere. So in a sense it is open. At least more than openAI or openrouter :)

TimurKramar··on Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
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TimurKramar··on Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
World class: https://www.paddleocr.ai/main/en/version3.x/algorithm/Paddle...
TimurKramar··on Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
Thats exactly what it is. Its just an api for PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. I wasn't trying to hide that, im sorry if it came out that way. 'Open' because its just an open-weight model under the hood.