DeepSeek OCR

How does it compare to Tesseract? https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

I use ocrmypdf (which uses Tesseract). Runs locally and is absolutely fantastic. https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Indeed, seems the default benchmark is LLM/VLM based alternatives as if they somehow "solved" the problem but IMHO even if it goes from (totally made up numbers) 80% with tesseract to 95% with this or Qwen or whatever but it takes 100x harddisk with containers or a CUDA stack, dedicated hardware, e.g. GPU with 16GB or VRAM, etc then it's such a trade of it should be considered.