llm-document-ocr

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Sponsored by Mercoa, the API for BillPay and Invoicing. Everything you need to launch accounts payable in your product with a single API!

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LLM Based OCR and Document Parsing for Node.js. Uses GPT4-V for OCR and data extraction.

• Converts PDFs (including multi page PDFs) into PNGs for use with GPT4-V
• Automatically crops white-space to create smaller inputs
• Cleans up JSON string returned by GPT4-V and converts it to an JSON object
• Custom prompt support for capturing any data you need

Supports:

• ✅ PNG
• ✅ WEBP
• ✅ JPEG / JPG
• ✅ GIF
• ✅ PDF
• ✅ Multi-page PDF
• ❌ DOC
• ❌ DOCX

Installation

npm i --save llm-document-ocr

yarn add llm-document-ocr

Note: If you are deploying via Docker, see the Dockerfile for an example Alpine base image.

Usage

import { DocumentOcr, prompts } from "llm-document-ocr";

const documentOcr = new DocumentOcr({
  apiKey: 'YOUR-OPENAI-API-KEY' // required, defaults to process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY
  model: "gpt-4-vision-preview", // optional, defaults to "gpt-4-vision-preview"
  standardFontDataUrl: "https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist@3.2.146/standard_fonts/", // optional, defaults to "https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist@3.2.146/standard_fonts/". You can use the systems fonts or the fonts under ./node_modules/pdfjs-dist/standard_fonts/ as well.
});

const documentData = await documentOcr.process({
  document: 'JVBERi0xLjMNCiXi48/TDQoNCjEgMCBvYmoNCjw8DQ...', // Base64 String, Base64 URI, or Buffer
  mimeType: 'application/pdf', // mime-type of the document or image
  prompt: 'invoiceStartDate, invoiceEndDate, amount', // system prompt for data extraction. See examples below.
  pageOptions: 'FIRST_AND_LAST' // optional, defaults to 'ALL'. Determines which page of the PDF will be processed. Available options are 'ALL', 'FIRST_AND_LAST', 'FIRST', 'LAST'.
})

Prompts

Prompts will be automatically prefixed to tell GPT4-V to return JSON. You will need to specify the data you wish to extract, and GPT will return a JSON object with those keys.

For example, the prompt we use at Mercoa for invoice processing is the following:

`invoice number, invoice amount, currency (as ISO 4217 code), dueDate, invoiceDate, serviceStartDate, serviceEndDate,
  vendor's [name, email with @, website],
  line items [amnt, price, qty, des, name, cur (as ISO 4217 code)]`;

And this returns a JSON object that looks like:

{
  invoiceNumber?: string | number
  invoiceAmount?: string | number
  currency?: string
  dueDate?: string
  invoiceDate?: string
  serviceStartDate?: string
  serviceEndDate?: string
  vendor: {
    name?: string
    email?: string
    website?: string
  }
  lineItems: Array<{
    des?: string
    qty?: string | number
    price?: string | number
    amnt?: string | number
    name?: string
    cur?: string
  }>
}

Limitations

Currently, GPT4-V has a limitation of 100 requests per day.

Issues and Contributing

If you encounter a bug or want to see something added/changed, please go ahead and open an issue

If you wish to contribute to the library, thanks! Please see the CONTRIBUTING guide for more details.

License

MIT © Mercoa, Inc