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@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-05-09 17:14:03

RIP Commercial #OCR. An #OpenSource #Model Just Topped Every Benchmark.

RIP Commercial OCR. An Open-Source Model Just Topped Every Benchmark.
A 4B parameter model from a Brooklyn startup is beating GPT-4o and Gemini across 90 languages. Although OCR is not my domain, this one…

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-03-17 18:49:48

🚀 Running #OCR at scale with a #Vision #LLM for $0.49/hour
Just deployed dots.ocr (3B parameter Vision LLM by RedNote) on a single

@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2026-03-17 08:38:55

Any #ffmpeg experts here? I want to do one simple thing: make certain colors transparent (then alphaextract to feed into tesseract #OCR). That's it. The colorkey filter is perfect, but it seems to be an absolute impossibility if you want more than one color transparent.

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-04-11 20:43:48

🔍 Hybrid unlocks: borderless table extraction (0.49−0.93 TEDS), #OCR in 80 languages, #LaTeX formula extraction from scientific papers, AI chart & image descriptions
🛡️ Built-in #AI safety: fil…