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Re:Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screensho... by monosma on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:36AM (#48413989)
What was the reason for adopting PaddleOCR? Can other OCR models be used as well?
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Re:Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screensho... by mrkn1 on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:42AM (#48414063)
No reason other than their Q4 model working reasonably well and fast on my CPU laptop. Should work with any ONNX VLM model
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