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Looking for OCR for AI papers (math-heavy PDFs) — FireRed-OCR vs DeepSeek-OCR vs

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RAG for complex PDFs (DDQ finance) — struggling with parsing vs privacy trade-off

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey everyone,</p> <p>I’ve built a fairly flexible RAG pipeline that was initially designed to handle any type of document (PDFs, reports, mixed

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27 Mar
Good open source llm for OCR - engineer drawing title blocks

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So far I have only tried Qwen and olmOCR. My biggest struggle at the moment has been extracting a date that is oriented in a title block, where

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24 Mar
Hitting a wall parsing 1,000+ complex scanned PDFs & Excel tables to JSON (CPU-only). AI newbie looking for local parser recommendations (GLM-OCR, FireRed OCR, etc.)

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey everyone,</p> <p>I’m pretty new to the AI engineering side of things, but I've recently been tasked with a massive digitization project at

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23 Mar
Need advice: Easiest way to run a local VLM (Vision) natively on Android/Kotlin for a CS degree final project?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I'm a Computer Engineering student working on my final degree project (TFG), and I have around 300 hours to complete it.</p>

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1 May
Why Is Table Extraction with VLM Models Still Challenging? [D]

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27 Mar
RYS Part 3: LLMs think in geometry, not language — new results across 4 models, including code and math

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s59rct/rys_part_3_llms_think_in_geometry_not_language/"> <img alt="RYS Part 3: LLMs think in geometry, not

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1 May
DeepSeek V4 Flash as a cheap worker in your LLM stack: $0.0003/call via MCP, swappable endpoint

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Most of my LLM cost was on the wrong tier of work.</p> <p>Classification, extraction, JSON formatting, summarization I'm going to review anyway.

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27 Mar
Looking for advice on local image analysis

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Trying to auto categorize a former employees photos from personal and work related. It’s a lot of photos and I don’t want the guy to loose

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