Layout Parser is a deep learning based tool for document image layout analysis tasks.

Installation

Use pip or conda to install the library: ```bash pip install layoutparser

Install Detectron2 for using DL Layout Detection Model

Please make sure the PyTorch version is compatible with

the installed Detectron2 version.

pip install 'git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git#egg=detectron2'

Install the ocr components when necessary

pip install layoutparser[ocr]
``` This by default will install the CPU version of the Detectron2, and it should be able to run on most of the computers. But if you have a GPU, you can consider the GPU version of the Detectron2, referring to the official instructions.

Quick Start

We provide a series of examples for to help you start using the layout parser library:

1. Table OCR and Results Parsing:

   layoutparser

   can be used for conveniently OCR documents and convert the output in to structured data.

2. Deep Layout Parsing Example: With the help of Deep Learning,

   layoutparser

   supports the analysis very complex documents and processing of the hierarchical structure in the layouts.

DL Assisted Layout Prediction Example

The images shown in the figure above are: a screenshot of this paper, an image from the PRIMA Layout Analysis Dataset, a screenshot of the WSJ website, and an image from the HJDataset.

With only 4 lines of code in

layoutparse

>>> import layoutparser as lp
>>> model = lp.Detectron2LayoutModel('lp://PrimaLayout/mask_rcnn_R_50_FPN_3x/config')
>>> layout = model.detect(image) # You need to load the image somewhere else, e.g., image = cv2.imread(...)
>>> lp.draw_box(image, layout,) # With extra configurations

Citing

layoutparser

If you find

layoutparser

@misc{shen2020layoutparser,
  author = {Zejiang Shen and Ruochen Zhang and Melissa Dell},
  title = {LayoutParser},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Layout-Parser/layout-parser}},
  year = {2020}
}