How can we integrate docling with any other ocr (eg : Azure OCR)?

[GOVINDPURACHERY]

We have some other OCR output with us (including bbox informations). can we pass this as an input and retrieve structured output (MarkDown/text/Json) using docling?

[dolfim-ibm]

We had already multiple contribution with OCR engines, you can see how they look like here https://github.com/DS4SD/docling/tree/main/docling/models.

Using external OCR engines (which perform an external API call) is possible, but we would require to make to the user that their data is being sent to an external service.

If you are willing to contribute a PR, we will gladly review it.

[nijaguna-br]

Hi, I am also looking for similar option.. I didnot find a direct way to use Azure OCR services with Docling OCR... Am i missing something? or this plugin is not avaiable as Docling has other OCR engines like ( EasyOCR, RapidOCR etc)