This project aims to create a text scanner that converts paper images into machine-readable formats (e.g., Markdown, JSON). It is the son of Nougat, and thus, grandson of Douat.
The key idea is to combine the bounding box modality with text, achieving a pixel scan behavior that predicts not only the next token but also the next position.
The name "Lougat" is a combination of LLama and Nougat. The key idea is nature continues of this paper [LOCR: Location-Guided Transformer for Optical Character Recognition]([
2403.02127] LOCR: Location-Guided Transformer for Optical Character Recognition (arxiv.org))
