I've been doing a lot of OCR recently, mostly digitising text from family photos. Normal OCR models are terrible at it, LLMs do far better. Gemini Flash came out on top from the models I tested and it wasn't even close. It still had enough failures and hallucinations to make it faster to write it in by hand. Annoying considering how close it feels to working.
This seems worse. Sometimes it replies with just the text, sometimes it replies with a full "The image is a scanned document with handwritten text...". I was hoping for some fine tuning or something for it to beat Gemini Flash, it would save me a lot of time. :(
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