MindeeReleased Jan 2024GPL v3

Surya

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It is an open-weight model from Mindee under the GPL v3 license, and commercial use requires open-sourcing your code or a commercial license.

Surya Overview

Surya is an OCR and document layout analysis toolkit developed by Vikram Paruchuri and distributed via Mindee, first released in January 2024 under the GPL-3.0 license. It supports text recognition across more than 90 languages, document layout detection, reading order prediction, table recognition, and equation detection, providing a comprehensive set of tools for extracting structured information from document images.

Surya License

GPL-3.0 · Restrictive license

Surya is released under GPL-3.0, a restrictive license. The Surya license permits commercial use, but it requires you to open-source any code changes you make, so businesses that cannot release related code need a separate commercial license.

Commercial use: Permitted with obligations: you can sell products built on Surya only if you also release the corresponding source under GPL-3.0. A commercial license removes that obligation.
Modification: Permitted. Modified versions you distribute must be released under GPL-3.0, with your changes documented.
Redistribution: Permitted with the corresponding source code and the license text.

Uncertainty around licensing can delay or stop a project. If you are commercially unwilling or legally unable to open-source related code, settle the Surya licensing question before you build on it, not after.

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This model is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0), a strong copyleft open-source license. Derivative works must also be released under GPL-3.0.

Commercial use is permitted, but any software that incorporates or links against this model and is distributed must also be released under the GPL-3.0 license, including its source code.

GPL-3.0 is a "copyleft" license: distributing a product that includes this model typically requires you to release your full source code under GPL-3.0.

License information is provided as a guide and is not legal advice.