Spark NLP release notes 3.11.0

3.11.0

Release date: 28-02-2022

Overview

We are glad to announce that Spark OCR 3.11.0 has been released! This release comes with new models, new features, bug fixes, and notebook examples.

New Features

• Added ImageTextDetectorV2 Python Spark-OCR Transformer for detecting printed and handwritten text using CRAFT architecture with Refiner Net.
• Added ImageTextRecognizerV2 Python Spark-OCR Transformer for recognizing printed and handwritten text based on Deep Learning Transformer Architecture.
• Added FormRelationExtractor for detecting relations between key and value entities in forms.
• Added the capability of fine tuning VisualDocumentNerV2 models for key-value pairs extraction.

New Models

• ImageTextDetectorV2: this extends the ImageTextDetectorV1 character level text detection model with a refiner net architecture.
• ImageTextRecognizerV2: Text recognition for printed text based on the Deep Learning Transformer Architecture.

New notebooks

• SparkOcrImageToTextV2
• ImageTextDetectorV2
• Visual Document NER v2
• SparkOcrFormRecognition
• SparkOCRVisualDocumentNERv2FineTune
• Creating Rest a API with Synapse to extract text from images, SparkOcrRestApi
• Creating Rest a API with Synapse to extract text from PDFs, SparkOcrRestApiPdf