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Is there an alternative to PaddleOCR for large scale performant local OCR?

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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

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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

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7 Apr
Cheap hardware for mediocre LLMs

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone, so I have been playing around with the software side and an RTX 3090, but I'm wondering what hardware I could experiment with to get

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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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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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24 Mar
Looking for best local video (sound) to text transcription model and an OCR model to capture text from images/frames

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I know these exist for a while but what I am asking the community is what to pick right now that can rival closed source online inference

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10 Apr
Running a non-profit that needs to OCR 64 million pages. Where can I apply for free or subsidized compute to run a local model?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm running a not-for-profit and have the need to OCR 64 million pages for building a knowledge base. We don't have the funding and have been

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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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