Nougat
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Meta's Nougat is a visual transformer for "Neural Optical Understanding for Academic documents" that converts PDFs to LaTeX/Markdown.
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Academic-document focused: Specifically targets academic PDFs, where equations, tables, and reference formatting challenge general-purpose OCR systems.
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End-to-end visual transformer: A single visual transformer processes PDF page images into structured Markdown/LaTeX directly - no separate OCR + layout pipeline.
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Equation and table extraction: Handles mathematical equations and tables, producing LaTeX-correct output rather than flat text.
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Open release: Released with weights, enabling researchers to turn academic PDF collections into machine-readable corpora for downstream training and analysis.