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20 Aug
OCR Challange
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
5 Aug
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13 Apr
What is the best Open Source OCR in 2026?
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Other feeds and industry voices
10 Apr
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

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
15 Apr
Existing local OCR validation ?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Looking for a way to have a&quot;confidence score&quot; from my OCR. I saw Doclinig has integrated it but is there any lib/framework or whatever

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
27 Mar
Looking for OCR for AI papers (math-heavy PDFs) — FireRed-OCR vs DeepSeek-OCR vs MonkeyOCR?

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s51awb/looking_for_ocr_for_ai_papers_mathheavy_pdfs/"> <img alt="Looking for OCR for AI papers (math-heavy

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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>

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
11 Aug
CJK Manga/Manhwa/Manhua 150M OCR model (hayai-ocr-v2) outperforming PaddleOCR-VL-For-Manga

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vlhjb3/cjk_mangamanhwamanhua_150m_ocr_model_hayaiocrv2/"> <img alt="CJK Manga/Manhwa/Manhua 150M OCR model

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
1 May
Why Is Table Extraction with VLM Models Still Challenging? [D]

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1t0txco/why_is_table_extraction_with_vlm_models_still/"> <img alt="Why Is Table Extraction with VLM

OPINION · WHAT · MachineLearningOPEN STORY
27 Mar
DeepSeekOCR & codefuse-ai/F2LLM-v2 are ready on llama.cpp

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Update your llama.cpp version. PR links have more details.</p> <ul> <li>DeepSeekOCR - <a

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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