Tagged "ocr"

5 articles tagged ocr, 12 February 2026 to 13 August 2026. Newest first.

• LFM2.5-VL-3B: Lightweight Vision-Language Model Optimized for Edge Deployment 13 August 2026

  Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3B parameter vision-language model designed for on-device inference with support for UI recognition and OCR. The model delivers efficient multimodal capabilities suitable for resource-constrained edge environments.

• Build Self-Scaling OCR Pipeline with Qwen 3.5 and Kubernetes 26 July 2026

  A production-ready course demonstrates deploying Qwen 3.5 for OCR workloads with Kubernetes auto-scaling, bridging the gap between local inference and distributed edge deployment.

• Show HN: We built an OCR server that can process 270 dense images/s on a 5090 23 April 2026

  A high-performance OCR inference server achieving 270 dense images per second on a single GPU, demonstrating practical edge inference optimization techniques.

• Fine-Tuned Qwen3.5-0.8B for OCR Outperforms Previous 2B Release 14 April 2026

  A developer released an improved fine-tuned version of Qwen3.5-0.8B optimized for OCR tasks, surpassing the performance of their earlier 2B model with better training data and inference efficiency.

• Microsoft MarkItDown: Document Preprocessing Tool for LLMs 12 February 2026

  Microsoft releases MarkItDown, a tool that converts various document formats (PDF, HTML, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB) to markdown while also supporting audio transcription, YouTube links, and OCR for images.