Show HN: Browser-based PDF form fields detection (YOLO-based)

(commonforms.simplepdf.com)

24 points | by nip 2 days ago ago

3 comments

  • jbarrow 2 days ago ago

    Hey, Benjamin, thanks for the attribution! Happy to field any questions HN users have.

    It's really gratifying to see people building on the work, and I love that it's possible to do browser-side/on-device.

  • Shindi 19 hours ago ago

    Tbh this model is extremely bad. I tried a couple of our medical form examples and it couldn't find almost any of the fields.

    • jbarrow 18 hours ago ago

      Super interesting. Would you be willing to try the Python package (https://github.com/jbarrow/commonforms) or share the PDFs?

      For the non-ONNX models there are some inference tricks that generally improve performance, and potentially lowering confidence could help.