Dolphin vs text-extract-api

Side-by-side comparison of two AI agent tools

Short answer

  • Dolphin is growing faster: +28 GitHub stars in the last 30 days vs +17 for text-extract-api.
  • Pick Dolphin for: the official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025. Pick text-extract-api for: local FastAPI for OCR extraction and PII removal from images, PDFs and Office files to Markdown or JSON.

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The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

text-extract-apiopen-source

Local FastAPI for OCR extraction and PII removal from images, PDFs and Office files to Markdown or JSON

Metrics

Dolphintext-extract-api
Stars9.1k3.2k
Star velocity /mo28.2631578947368416.736842105263158
Commits (90d)00
Releases (6m)00
Overall score0.21710121741767380.20484123380037875

Pros

  • +Universal document parsing capability that handles both digital and photographed documents seamlessly
  • +Advanced two-stage architecture with document-type-aware parsing strategies optimized for different document formats
  • +Comprehensive 21-element detection including complex elements like formulas, code blocks, and tables with attribute field extraction
  • +完全本地化处理，无外部依赖，确保数据隐私和安全性
  • +支持多种先进OCR策略（LLaMA Vision、EasyOCR等），识别精度极高
  • +集成分布式队列和缓存机制，支持大规模文档批量处理

Cons

  • -Research-focused tool that may require significant technical expertise to implement and integrate
  • -Relatively new release with limited production use cases and community feedback
  • -Large model size (3B parameters) may require substantial computational resources for deployment
  • -需要安装多个依赖组件（Docker、Ollama），初始设置较为复杂
  • -本地运行PyTorch模型需要较大计算资源和存储空间

Use Cases

  • •Academic research document digitization and content extraction from PDFs and scanned papers
  • •Enterprise document processing for complex reports, invoices, and forms with mixed content types
  • •Automated parsing of technical documentation containing code snippets, mathematical formulas, and diagrams
  • •医疗机构将MRI报告、病历等医疗文档转换为结构化数据
  • •企业财务部门处理发票、合同等文档并自动移除敏感信息
  • •法律机构批量数字化和分析大量合规文档或法律条文
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FAQ

Which is more popular, Dolphin or text-extract-api?
Dolphin has more GitHub stars (9,059 vs 3,183).
Which is more actively developed, Dolphin or text-extract-api?
Dolphin had more commits in the last 90 days (0 vs 0).
Should I use Dolphin or text-extract-api?
Compare their capabilities, limitations and "best for" notes above. Trying each on a small task is the fastest way to decide.