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Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by criddell on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:16PM (#43196892)
Probably something like Apple Vision Framework or Amazon Textract or Google's Cloud Vision.

Tesseract does well under ideal conditions, but the world is messy.

Re:Replace OCR with Vision Language Models by cratermoon on Thursday February 27, 2025 @02:35PM (#43197654)
I was thinking ABBYY FineReader, but those, too. Instead of using VLMs or any sort of generative AI, they're build on good old-fashioned feature extraction and nearest neighbor classifiers such as the k-nearest neighbors algorithm. It's possible to build a working prototype of this technique using basic ML algorithms.