Abstract: There is a sudden increase in digital data as well as a rising demand for extracting text efficiently from images. These two led to full optical character recognition systems are introduced ...

Although the Mac offers fantastic support for opening and editing PDFs in the built-in Preview app, the simple act of copying and pasting text from a PDF can still be a nightmare. For instance, ...

Sweden uses common salt to de-ice its roads in winter, contrary to online posts that say it uses a new beet extract salt, the country’s Transport Administration has said. Posts shared on social media, ...

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LangExtract lets users define custom extraction tasks using natural language instructions and high-quality “few-shot” examples. This empowers developers and analysts to specify exactly which entities, ...

Tired of rewinding YouTube videos repeatedly to jot down notes, missing crucial information along the way? There’s a better way! Imagine instantly accessing the complete text of any YouTube video, ...

A tax plan backed by President Donald Trump has passed the U.S. House of Representatives — and it’s dubbed the Big Beautiful Bill Act, in part, because it’s, well, big. At more than 1,000 pages long, ...

A Python application that extracts text and images from PDFs, applies OCR to images using Tesseract, and stores the results in a SQLite database. The application features a GUI for searching both text ...

For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a persistent problem: How to extract usable data from Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These digital documents serve as ...