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Comment by tinyhouse

3 months ago

OCR is not a great name for these models. While they can do traditional OCR such as digitize and scanned PDF for example, they do so much more.

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intalentive  3 months ago

>they do so much more I'm not familiar. What else are they good for?

  • tinyhouse  3 months ago

    They can take something like an image of a graph and provide a description of it. From my understanding, these are multimodal models with reasoning capabilities.

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