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Support for detecting special symbols like bullet points, check boxes, etc. #1570

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parthpatel002 opened this issue Apr 29, 2024 · 1 comment
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@parthpatel002
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Currently, all text detection models in docTR do not seem to identify special characters like bullet points, check boxes, etc. (likely because the training data is so) - attaching sample outputs (clipped screenshots of document pages). We should be able to detect these symbols to increase detection coverage to all text present on a page.
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Symbols like bullet points, checkboxes, etc. form an integral part of the text content of many types of documents in general and OCR should be able to detect as well as recognize these symbols to increase coverage to all text present on the page.

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@parthpatel002 parthpatel002 added the type: enhancement Improvement label Apr 29, 2024
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Hi @parthpatel002 👋,

with bullet points i agree (but as you already mentioned there are no such samples in the pretraining dataset).
About the check boxes i think this would be more a topic for document layout parsing :)

But we have on the roadmap to pretrain on https://huggingface.co/datasets/pixparse/pdfa-eng-wds

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