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357 points ingve | 3 comments | 13 May 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.66s | source

1. EmilStenstrom ◴[13 May 25 16:34 UTC] No.43974754[source]▶

I think using Gemma3 in vision mode could be a good use-case for converting PDF to text. It’s downloadable and runnable on a local computer, with decent memory requirements depending on which size you pick. Did anyone try it?

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2. CaptainFever ◴[13 May 25 17:01 UTC] No.43975132[source]▶

>>43974754 (TP) #

Kind of unrelated, but Gemma 3's weights are unfree, so perhaps LLaVA (https://ollama.com/library/llava) would be a good alternative.

3. ljlolel ◴[13 May 25 18:46 UTC] No.43976271[source]▶

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Mistral OCR has the best in class document understanding. https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

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PDF to Text, a challenging problem