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Baidu open-sourced a peanut-sized OCR that parses entire 100-page PDFs in one shot (huggingface.co)

submitted 1 day ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Marija@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Tiny specialized models are really interesting.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

Aside from agentic coding, this seems to be the most interesting niche to me. There are now lots of models for doing stuff like tts, stt, ocr, and it's really handy for sifting through documents, extracting transcripts, etc. And it's all stuff you can run locally on moderate hardware.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

o7 Farewell, Tesseract

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What languages does it support? Any source?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see language being passed in the example code, so it may be agnostic?

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 10 minutes ago

Isn't that almost impossible? It has to be trained on that language afaik

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I use the inbuild OCR in ShareX, which works pretty well, without AI. FOSS

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

I find traditional OCR apps are just qualitatively worse. This tool understands complex tables, extracts mathematical formulas, predicts reading order, and outputs nicely formatted Markdown. So, it's not just blindly scraping flat text from a document.

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you think that it doesn't use AI? It uses Wndows' own OCR APIs, requiring Windows language packs for support for different scripts & languages. OCR has used AI for a long time now.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, like my chess computer in the 90th. I don't have any lenguage modell in Windows, nor any other MS crap and services, the first I deleted from Windows

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Mate, AI is a lot more than LLMs. Always has been.