EricRollei/PDF-Tools
Emerging#5 in Open sourcelow confidence
ComfyUI custom nodes for PDF page extraction, Surya and PaddleOCR text recognition, and Florence-2 layout and object analysis in visual workflows.Why it ranks #5
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