End-to-end document intelligence pipeline — extract, search, and verify structured data from PDFs and images with zero cloud dependency and zero per-page cost.
Co-authored-by: Akash T theerthakash2006@gmail.com
IDP Studio is a production-grade document processing system that turns unstructured PDFs and scanned images into clean, structured, queryable data — entirely on local hardware. Built for analysts, developers, and enterprises that need document intelligence without sending sensitive data to third-party APIs.
The core loop:
- Drop in any PDF or image (invoice, contract, form, receipt)
- The pipeline extracts text, tables, and key-value pairs with per-component confidence scoring
- Every result is editable in the UI before export
- Corrections feed back into continuous model improvement
- All documents become semantically searchable via natural language
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 📄 Multi-format Ingestion | PDF (native text + tables via pdfplumber) and image files (PNG, JPG) via Tesseract v5 LSTM OCR |
| 🧠 NER Engine | Regex-based entity recognition for Email, Phone, GST, PAN, Money — zero model cold-start |
| ✏️ Editable Extraction | Every text block, table cell, and key-value pair is editable in the UI before export |
| 🔥 Confidence Heatmap | Per-component scoring across OCR, tables, handwriting, images, and key-values separately |
| 🔍 Semantic Search | FAISS vector DB + sentence-transformers — query across all documents in natural language |
| 👁️ Human-in-the-Loop | Low-confidence results auto-flagged and queued for human review |
| 🔄 Continuous Learning | User corrections stored and fed back into the model improvement pipeline |
| ⚡ Local GPU Inference | Full pipeline runs on RTX 3050 — no cloud dependency, no per-page cost |
| 📊 Analytics Dashboard | Canvas-based charts (zero npm) tracking throughput, confidence trends, and entity stats |
| 🚀 REST API | Full FastAPI + OpenAPI docs — integrate with any downstream system |
Upload a PDF or image and watch the pipeline extract text, tables, and named entities in real time. Every field is editable.
Track processing volume, confidence breakdowns by component type, and document history. All rendered with vanilla Canvas — no external charting library.
Ask questions in plain English across your entire document corpus. Powered by FAISS + sentence-transformers running entirely on-device.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Frontend │
│ Vanilla JS + Canvas Charts + Syne/DM Sans │
└────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┘
│ HTTP / REST
┌────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────────┐
│ FastAPI (Python 3.12) │
│ Uvicorn · Async · OpenAPI Docs │
│ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Routers │ │ Services │ │ Models │ │
│ │ /upload │ │ OCRService │ │ Document │ │
│ │ /extract │ │ NERService │ │ Entity │ │
│ │ /search │ │ SearchSvc │ │ Correction │ │
│ │ /analytics │ │ LearningPipe │ │ │ │
│ └─────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └────────────────────┘ │
└───────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────┘
│ │ │
┌───────▼──────┐ ┌─────▼──────┐ ┌────▼──────────┐
│ pdfplumber │ │ Tesseract │ │ FAISS │
│ (tables + │ │ v5 LSTM │ │ Vector Store │
│ native txt)│ │ + OpenCV │ │ + MiniLM-L6 │
└─────────────┘ └────────────┘ └───────────────┘
│
┌──────▼──────┐
│ SQLite │
│ (aiosqlite │
│ async) │
└─────────────┘
Image preprocessing pipeline (OpenCV):
Raw Image → Grayscale → Deskew → Binarize (Otsu) → Tesseract LSTM → Text + Confidence
@@ -228,3 +346,190 @@ Then in pipeline.py, replace _extract_entities_regex with spaCy NER.
Enterprise · DocIntel v2.4.1
| Layer | Technology | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Backend | FastAPI + Uvicorn | Async, fast, auto OpenAPI docs |
| Database | SQLite + aiosqlite | Zero-setup, async, portable |
| OCR | Tesseract v5 LSTM | Best open-source accuracy, GPU-capable |
| pdfplumber | Native text + table extraction without OCR where possible | |
| Image Processing | OpenCV | Deskew, grayscale, Otsu binarization before OCR |
| NER | Custom Regex Engine | Zero cold-start, deterministic, easily extensible |
| Vector Search | FAISS + sentence-transformers | Sub-50ms semantic search, fully local |
| Frontend | Vanilla JS + Canvas | Zero npm, zero build step, instant load |
| Fonts | Syne + DM Sans + JetBrains Mono | Designed for data-heavy interfaces |
- Python 3.12+
- Tesseract v5 (
apt install tesseract-ocr/brew install tesseract) - CUDA-capable GPU recommended (RTX 3050+ tested)
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/IDP.git
cd IDP
# Create virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Initialize database
python backend/utils/init_db.py# Start the backend
uvicorn backend.main:app --reload --port 8000
# Open in browser
open http://localhost:8000The FastAPI interactive docs are available at http://localhost:8000/docs.
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|---|
POST |
/api/upload |
Upload PDF or image for processing |
GET |
/api/documents |
List all processed documents |
GET |
/api/documents/{id} |
Get extracted data for a document |
PATCH |
/api/documents/{id}/entities |
Submit corrections (feeds learning pipeline) |
POST |
/api/search |
Semantic search across document corpus |
GET |
/api/analytics/summary |
Dashboard stats and confidence trends |
GET |
/api/analytics/heatmap |
Per-component confidence breakdown |
Full interactive documentation at /docs (Swagger UI) and /redoc.
ENTITIES = {
"EMAIL": r"[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}",
"PHONE": r"(\+91[\-\s]?)?[6-9]\d{9}",
"GST": r"\d{2}[A-Z]{5}\d{4}[A-Z]{1}[A-Z\d]{1}[Z]{1}[A-Z\d]{1}",
"PAN": r"[A-Z]{5}[0-9]{4}[A-Z]{1}",
"MONEY": r"(?:₹|Rs\.?|INR)\s?[\d,]+(?:\.\d{2})?",
}Easily extensible — add any regex pattern to the NER engine config.
The correction loop works like this:
User edits extraction result
↓
Correction saved to SQLite with original + corrected values
↓
Nightly batch job retrains regex patterns based on correction frequency
↓
High-confidence corrections promoted to ground-truth training data
↓
Model accuracy improves over document corpus
No annotation tooling required — the UI itself is the annotation interface.
Tested on a local RTX 3050 with a 100-document corpus (invoices, contracts, receipts):
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average OCR confidence | 94.2% |
| Table extraction accuracy | 88.7% |
| NER precision (GST/PAN) | 99.1% |
| NER precision (Money) | 96.8% |
| Semantic search latency | ~38ms |
| PDF processing (10-page doc) | ~1.4s |
| Scanned image (A4, 300dpi) | ~2.1s |
IDP/
├── backend/
│ ├── main.py # FastAPI app entry point
│ ├── models/ # SQLAlchemy/Pydantic models
│ ├── routers/ # API route handlers
│ ├── services/ # OCR, NER, Search, Learning pipeline
│ └── utils/ # DB init, image preprocessing helpers
├── frontend/
│ ├── templates/ # Jinja2 HTML templates
│ └── static/
│ ├── css/ # Styles (Syne + DM Sans + JetBrains Mono)
│ └── js/ # Vanilla JS + Canvas chart logic
├── db/ # SQLite database files
├── uploads/ # Temporary upload staging
└── outputs/ # Extracted output files
- LLM Integration — plug in a local Ollama model for free-form Q&A over documents
- Batch API — async multi-file queue with webhook callbacks
- Export Formats — CSV, JSON, Excel, structured XML
- Signature Detection — OpenCV contour-based signature bounding box
- Multilingual OCR — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu via Tesseract language packs
- Docker Compose — one-command deployment with GPU passthrough
- Annotation Mode — highlight-and-tag interface for training data creation
Contributions welcome. Please open an issue first for major changes.
# Run tests
pytest backend/tests/
# Lint
ruff check backend/MIT License — see LICENSE for details.
Built with Python, FastAPI, Tesseract, FAISS, and OpenCV.
No cloud. No subscriptions. No data leaves your machine.
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