Proposal of integration with the Hugging Face Hub

[osanseviero]

Hi there!

Layout Parser is very cool! At Hugging Face we are collaborating with open source libraries in the ecosystem such as spaCy, Sentence Transformers, Timm, ESPNet, and more in order to implement integration in the models hub.

The idea is to make it as easy as possible for your users to try out and share models. I think it would be very great to have some integration with Layout Parser. Users would get the following benefits:

• Free hosting of models
• Built-in file versioning
• Hub features: Code snippets, filters to find models, and other features to help with discoverability
• Potentially hosted Inference API and widgets to try out the models (you can find examples of all our widgets here, and here is an example in a model card.

For Layout Parser I think having downstream support would be a nice feature and would match nicely with the existing workflow of using pretrained models. Instead of using Dropbox to share model links, you could have an organization in the Hub in which users would be able to find all your models and even try them out directly in the browser!

cc @LysandreJik @NielsRogge

[lolipopshock]

Thank you @osanseviero ! Yeah, I think this plan looks great! Let me discuss with our teammates and we will get back to you soon.