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Kezhan Shi
Parse Scanned PDFs for RAG with EasyOCR: Free OCR Gives You Words, Not a Document
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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5quinquies] - Same 1974 scanned PDF, two engines.
EasyOCR recovers text.
Docling recovers text + sections + figures.
The structural gap makes one output usable downstream and the other one a flat string.
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