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We’re excited to open source docext, a zero-OCR, on-premises tool for extracting structured data from documents like invoices, passports, and more — no cloud, no external APIs, no OCR engines required.

 Powered entirely by vision-language models (VLMs), docext understands documents visually and semantically to extract both field data and tables — directly from document images.

 Run it fully on-prem for complete data privacy and control. 

Key Features:

• Custom & pre-built extraction templates
• Table + field data extraction
• Gradio-powered web interface
• On-prem deployment with REST API
• Multi-page document support
• Confidence scores for extracted fields

Whether you're processing invoices, ID documents, or any form-heavy paperwork, docext helps you turn them into usable data in minutes.

 Try it out:

• pip install docext or launch via Docker
• Spin up the web UI with python -m docext.app.app
• Dive into the Colab demo

 GitHub: 

 Questions? Feature requests? Open an issue or start a discussion!