Comment by senko

> I've build a system that read 500k pages _per day_ using the above completely locally on a machine that cost $20k.

That is impressive. However, if someone needs to read a couple of hundred pages per day, there's no point in setting all that up.

Also, you neglected to mention the cost of setting everything up. The machine cost $20k; but your time, and cost to train yolo8, probably cost more than that. If you want to compare costs (find a point where local implementation such as this is better ROI), you should compare fully loaded costs.