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feat: Add OCR fallback when MLM is unavailable for image processing #30

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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions src/markitdown/_markitdown.py
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1039,6 +1039,20 @@ def convert(self, local_path, **kwargs) -> Union[None, DocumentConverterResult]:
).strip()
+ "\n"
)
# add ocr only when MLM is not available
if mlm_client is None or mlm_model is None:
try:
import easyocr
reader = easyocr.Reader(['ch_sim','en']) # support chinese and english
ocr_result = reader.readtext(local_path)
if ocr_result:
md_content += "\n"
for detection in ocr_result:
text = detection[1] # extract text
md_content += f"- {text}\n"
except ImportError:
# easyocr not installed
pass

return DocumentConverterResult(
title=None,
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