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990 points pierre | 1 comments | 20 Oct 25 06:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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foofoo12 ◴[20 Oct 25 12:25 UTC] No.45643117[source]▶
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/

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1. utopiah ◴[20 Oct 25 14:08 UTC] No.45644101[source]▶
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.