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Improved file parsing for LLM’s
https://github.com/Filimoa/open-parse

document-parser document-structure layout-parsing table-detection

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**Easily chunk complex documents the same way a human would.**  



Chunking documents is a challenging task that underpins any RAG system.  High quality results are critical to a sucessful AI application, yet most open-source libraries are limited in their ability to handle complex documents.  



Open Parse is designed to fill this gap by providing a flexible, easy-to-use library capable of visually discerning document layouts and chunking them effectively.



  How is this different from other layout parsers?



  #### ✂️ Text Splitting

  Text splitting converts a file to raw text and [slices it up](https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/api_reference/node_parsers/token_text_splitter/).

  

  - You lose the ability to easily overlay the chunk on the original pdf

  - You ignore the underlying semantic structure of the file - headings, sections, bullets represent valuable information.

  - No support for tables, images or markdown.

  

  #### 🤖 ML Layout Parsers

  There's some of fantastic libraries like [layout-parser](https://github.com/Layout-Parser/layout-parser). 

  - While they can identify various elements like text blocks, images, and tables, but they are not built to group related content effectively.

  - They strictly focus on layout parsing - you will need to add another model to extract markdown from the images, parse tables, group nodes, etc.

  - We've found performance to be sub-optimal on many documents while also being computationally heavy.



  #### 💼 Commercial Solutions



  - Typically priced at ≈ $10 / 1k pages. See [here](https://cloud.google.com/document-ai), [here](https://aws.amazon.com/textract/) and [here](https://www.reducto.ai/).

  - Requires sharing your data with a vendor



## Highlights



- **🔍 Visually-Driven:** Open-Parse visually analyzes documents for superior LLM input, going beyond naive text splitting.

- **✍️ Markdown Support:** Basic markdown support for parsing headings, bold and italics.

- **📊 High-Precision Table Support:** Extract tables into clean Markdown formats with accuracy that surpasses traditional tools.

    

  Examples

  The following examples were parsed with unitable.

    


    


        


        

    


         


    



- **🛠️ Extensible:** Easily implement your own post-processing steps.

- **💡Intuitive:** Great editor support. Completion everywhere. Less time debugging.

- **🎯 Easy:** Designed to be easy to use and learn. Less time reading docs.








    




## Example



#### Basic Example



```python

import openparse



basic_doc_path = "./sample-docs/mobile-home-manual.pdf"

parser = openparse.DocumentParser()

parsed_basic_doc = parser.parse(basic_doc_path)



for node in parsed_basic_doc.nodes:

    print(node)

```



**📓 Try the sample notebook** here



#### Semantic Processing Example



Chunking documents is fundamentally about grouping similar semantic nodes together. By embedding the text of each node, we can then cluster them together based on their similarity.



```python

from openparse import processing, DocumentParser



semantic_pipeline = processing.SemanticIngestionPipeline(

    openai_api_key=OPEN_AI_KEY,

    model="text-embedding-3-large",

    min_tokens=64,

    max_tokens=1024,

)

parser = DocumentParser(

    processing_pipeline=semantic_pipeline,

)

parsed_content = parser.parse(basic_doc_path)

```



**📓 Sample notebook** here



#### Serializing Results

Uses pydantic under the hood so you can serialize results with 



```python

parsed_content.dict()



# or to convert to a valid json dict

parsed_content.json()

```



## Requirements



Python 3.8+



**Dealing with PDF's:**



- pdfminer.six Fully open source.



**Extracting Tables:**



- PyMuPDF has some table detection functionality. Please see their license.

- Table Transformer is a deep learning approach.

- unitable is another transformers based approach with **state-of-the-art** performance.



## Installation



#### 1. Core Library



```console

pip install openparse

```



**Enabling OCR Support**:



PyMuPDF will already contain all the logic to support OCR functions. But it additionally does need Tesseract’s language support data, so installation of Tesseract-OCR is still required.



The language support folder location must be communicated either via storing it in the environment variable "TESSDATA_PREFIX", or as a parameter in the applicable functions.



So for a working OCR functionality, make sure to complete this checklist:



1. Install Tesseract.



2. Locate Tesseract’s language support folder. Typically you will find it here:



   - Windows: `C:/Program Files/Tesseract-OCR/tessdata`



   - Unix systems: `/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata`



   - macOS (installed via Homebrew):

     - Standard installation: `/opt/homebrew/share/tessdata`

     - Version-specific installation: `/opt/homebrew/Cellar/tesseract//share/tessdata/`



3. Set the environment variable TESSDATA_PREFIX



   - Windows: `setx TESSDATA_PREFIX "C:/Program Files/Tesseract-OCR/tessdata"`



   - Unix systems: `declare -x TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata`



    - macOS (installed via Homebrew): `export TESSDATA_PREFIX=$(brew --prefix tesseract)/share/tessdata`



**Note:** _On Windows systems, this must happen outside Python – before starting your script. Just manipulating os.environ will not work!_



#### 2. ML Table Detection (Optional)



This repository provides an optional feature to parse content from tables using a variety of deep learning models.



```console

pip install "openparse[ml]"

```



Then download the model weights with



```console

openparse-download

```



You can run the parsing with the following. 



```python

parser = openparse.DocumentParser(

        table_args={

            "parsing_algorithm": "unitable",

            "min_table_confidence": 0.8,

        },

)

parsed_nodes = parser.parse(pdf_path)

```



Note we currently use [table-transformers](https://github.com/microsoft/table-transformer) for all table detection and we find its performance to be subpar. This negatively affects the downstream results of unitable. If you're aware of a better model please open an Issue - the unitable team mentioned they might add this soon too.



## Cookbooks



https://github.com/Filimoa/open-parse/tree/main/src/cookbooks



## Documentation



https://filimoa.github.io/open-parse/



## Sponsors






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