TY - JOUR A1 - Rajan, Kohulan A1 - Brinkhaus, Henning Otto A1 - Agea, M. Isabel A1 - Zielesny, Achim A1 - Steinbeck, Christoph T1 - DECIMER.ai: an open platform for automated optical chemical structure identification, segmentation and recognition in scientific publications T2 - Nature Communications N2 - The number of publications describing chemical structures has increased steadily over the last decades. However, the majority of published chemical information is currently not available in machine-readable form in public databases. It remains a challenge to automate the process of information extraction in a way that requires less manual intervention - especially the mining of chemical structure depictions. As an open-source platform that leverages recent advancements in deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing, DECIMER.ai (Deep lEarning for Chemical IMagE Recognition) strives to automatically segment, classify, and translate chemical structure depictions from the printed literature. The segmentation and classification tools are the only openly available packages of their kind, and the optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) core application yields outstanding performance on all benchmark datasets. The source code, the trained models and the datasets developed in this work have been published under permissive licences. An instance of the DECIMER web application is available at https://decimer.ai. KW - machine learning KW - artificial intelligence KW - AI KW - optical chemical structure recognition KW - OCSR Y1 - 2023 UR - https://whge.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4477 VL - 2023 IS - 14: 5045 ER -