Inspired by Franz Kafka's infamous character, Gregor Samsa — an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself transformed into a cockroach in The Metamorphosis. Here, cucaracha embodies the metaphor of a tireless, sometimes bureaucratic helper working tirelessly in the background. In the digital age, Mr. Cucaracha is here to assist you with the complex and often tedious tasks of document processing and analysis.
cucaracha is an open-source library crafted to help with digital document analysis and processing. It provides a toolkit for working with both structured and unstructured data, allowing users to collect, transform, and interpret textual content from various document formats, including PDFs and images.
- Text Extraction: Efficiently retrieve text from PDFs and image files, transforming them into usable data.
- Content Structuring: Process extracted text into structured formats, aiding in more organized data handling and downstream applications.
- Context Recognition: Perform contextual analysis to interpret and label document content based on intended usage.
The major objective of this project is to offer an accessible, open-source alternative for processing document files, which provides document processing and analysis algorithms to simplify tasks that would traditionally be time-consuming or challenging to automate.
Check it out all the public datasets and ML models used in this project located at Kaggle - Cucaracha Project
The name cucaracha reflects the tireless, behind-the-scenes nature of the tool. Like Kafka's transformed character, Mr. Cucaracha deals with the mundanity and bureaucracy often present in document processing tasks. He's designed to tackle these repetitive and complex tasks with minimal oversight, ensuring efficient and structured data extraction without the typical hurdles of document handling.
Check out the full documentation for detailed instructions on how to use, implement, and keep up with updates to cucaracha.
We welcome contributions to cucaracha! To get involved, take a look at the open issues and join us in enhancing Mr. Cucaracha's capabilities. Whether you're here to fix bugs, suggest features, or work on documentation, your input is valuable to the project.
Happy document processing with Mr. Cucaracha! 🪳
A quick to use install is via pip, as follows:
Note
The installation requires Python 3.9 or higher
pip install cucaracha