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Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by rafram on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:07AM (#43195643)
True, but LLM token probability doesn't map nearly as cleanly to "how readable was the text".
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Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by hansvm on Thursday February 27, 2025 @12:20PM (#43196376)
Why not though? Both kinds of models jumble around the data and spit out a probability distribution. Why is the tesseract distribution inherently more explainable (aside from the UI/UX problem of the uncertainty being per-token instead of per-character)?
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