README.md

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This project aims to create a text scanner that converts paper images into machine-readable formats (e.g., Markdown, JSON). It is the son of Nougat, and thus, grandson of Douat.

The key idea is to combine the bounding box modality with text, achieving a pixel scan behavior that predicts not only the next token but also the next position.

![Example Image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/veya2ztn/Lougat/main/images/image.png)

The name "Lougat" is a combination of LLama and Nougat. The key idea is nature continues of this paper [LOCR: Location-Guided Transformer for Optical Character Recognition]([[2403.02127\] LOCR: Location-Guided Transformer for Optical Character Recognition (arxiv.org)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02127))

Current Branch: The **LOCR** model

Other Branch:
- Florence2 + LLama → Flougat
- Sam2 + LLama → Slougat
- Nougat + Relative Position Embedding LLama → Rlougat


# Inference and Train

Please see `https://github.com/veya2ztn/Lougat`