[HN Gopher] Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Do...
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       Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents
        
       Author : JohnHammersley
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2023-09-04 17:22 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (facebookresearch.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (facebookresearch.github.io)
        
       | 29athrowaway wrote:
       | tl;dr: it translates images of papers into TeX documents.
        
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       | yoz wrote:
       | The paper (and examples) as HTML:
       | https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/
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       | Repo with code, including a CLI tool for converting a PDF to
       | Mathpix Markdown: https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat
        
         | dang wrote:
         | We've changed to that first link from
         | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13418. Thanks!
         | 
         | Edit: recent and related:
         | 
         |  _Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents_
         | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342215 - Aug 2023 (27
         | comments)
        
           | JohnHammersley wrote:
           | Thanks Dang! You're right that's probably the better link to
           | use, rather than the arXiv version -- I just have a liking
           | for PDFs, which is why I linked to the preprint :)
        
       | dmnsl wrote:
       | New training data source for LLM just dropped
        
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         | gpderetta wrote:
         | While online sources are blocking GPTBot, the real GPTBot is
         | walking to the nearest library for the next training session.
        
         | tensor wrote:
         | Honestly an LLM chatbot trained on all the worlds academic
         | writings that was able to correctly cite sources in its answers
         | would be of immense benefit to humanity and academics.
         | 
         | I wish it would happen, but so much academic content is locked
         | behind various pay gates.
        
           | zacmps wrote:
           | How long until someone enrolls an LLM in a university course
           | to get journal access.
        
       | w-m wrote:
       | Trying to come to this discussion I accidentally misclicked and
       | ended up in OPs profile, to learn that he's a cofounder of
       | Overleaf (hi John, big fan of the product). Overleaf, which has
       | the purpose of turning markup language into PDFs, whereas Nougat
       | turns PDFs into markup language. Made me wonder how many of these
       | inverse/symmetrical/twin products there are, where one turns foos
       | into bars and the other turning bars back into foos.
        
         | JohnHammersley wrote:
         | Thanks w-m, glad you find Overleaf useful :) I can't quite
         | believe it's been ten years since we started out -- time
         | certainly does fly by.
         | 
         | I did appreciate the somewhat circular loop in posting this, so
         | thanks also for noticing! And my H/T for spotting this
         | originally goes to my friend & colleague Alf Eaton, who
         | reshared Lukas's tweet:
         | https://twitter.com/lukas_blecher/status/1696101110853910716
        
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