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Any free local opensource OCR that understands columns?
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15 Apr
Existing local OCR validation ?
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Looking for a way to have a"confidence score" from my OCR. I saw Doclinig has integrated it but is there any lib/framework or whatever
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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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28 Mar
Is there an alternative to PaddleOCR for large scale performant local OCR?
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The way PaddleOCR designed their API, it moves memory too much back and forth between RAM and VRAM, which makes is too slow for my use case. Is
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