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10 Jun
Local LLM good for OCR of handwriting?
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
15 Apr
Existing local OCR validation ?
OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMA
3.1
Other feeds and industry voices
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

OPINION · WHERE · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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
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
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

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
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
17 Jun
Qwen3.6 or Gemma-4 or ?? for direct OCR of page images

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Working on parsing messy PDFs — fillable contract forms, but with all manner of non-savvy handling... partly filled with Acrobat, handwritten

OPINION · WHAT · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
27 Mar
Any free local opensource OCR that understands columns?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Tesseract.js no lo hace y lo ve como líneas, incluso si el texto está en diferentes columnas...</p> <p>Bettee if works for both pdfs and

OPINION · HOW · LocalLLaMAOPEN STORY
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