Tagged "ocr"
6 articles tagged ocr, 12 February 2026 to 11 September 2026. Newest first.
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PaddleOCR-VL on Apple Silicon: Crop to Blocks, Keep the Model Resident
Two findings from re-OCRing 412 degraded scans on a 16GB M1 Pro. Feed the model a whole page and it invents fluent, well-formed, entirely wrong text. Call it through llama-mtmd-cli instead of a resident llama-server and the same 12 crops take 7,351 seconds instead of 98.
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LFM2.5-VL-3B: Lightweight Vision-Language Model Optimized for Edge Deployment
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.
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Build Self-Scaling OCR Pipeline with Qwen 3.5 and Kubernetes
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.
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Show HN: We built an OCR server that can process 270 dense images/s on a 5090
A high-performance OCR inference server achieving 270 dense images per second on a single GPU, demonstrating practical edge inference optimization techniques.
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Fine-Tuned Qwen3.5-0.8B for OCR Outperforms Previous 2B Release
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.
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Microsoft MarkItDown: Document Preprocessing Tool for LLMs
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.