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Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by Hackbraten on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:16PM (#43190945)
> try LLMWhisperer(https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/) for OCR. It avoids LLMs

The website you linked says it uses LLMs?

Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by constantinum on Thursday February 27, 2025 @04:46AM (#43192782)
The tool doesn't use any LLMs for processing/parsing the data. It parses and converts into raw text.

The final output(raw text) of the parsing is then fed to LLMs for data extraction. e.g. Extracting data from insurance, banking, and invoice documents.