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An In-Depth Introduction to Nougat

An OCR-Free, Small Model-Based PDF Parsing Method

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Florian
May 27, 2024
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Nougat is an end-to-end, OCR-free small model introduced in August 2023. It can directly parse the content of images. It accepts images scanned from literary works or those converted from PDFs as input, and produces markdown as output.

This article will provide an in-depth introduction to Nougat, focusing on model architecture and the construction of training data. It will also share some insights gained from Nougat.

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