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- 18 days ago huggingface.co
Choosing and deploying open OCR models in your own pipelines
The post from an open-model platform's blog covers how to choose an OCR model, compare leading models, deploy locally or remotely, and go beyond OCR.
- 18 days ago x.com
FinePdfs publishes resources for PDF OCR
On October 20, 2025, FinePdfs published source code, labeled datasets, and a classifier designed for PDF OCR workflows.
- 18 days ago huggingface.co
OCR model expands document-understanding tasks
In a post published on November 25, 2025, Tencent introduced a document-understanding model with 1 billion parameters for parsing, visual question answering, and translation.
- 18 days ago huggingface.co
0.9B multimodal OCR: evaluating it on real documents
A post published on February 3, 2026 announces a 0.9B multimodal OCR model under the MIT license, reporting a score of 94.62 on OmniDocBench v1.5 and first place in that benchmark.
- 18 days ago ente.com
Private on-device OCR: Ente’s Android example
In a post published on December 3, 2025, Ente describes implementing on-device OCR for Ente Photos on Android and says the system is fully open source.
- 18 days ago github.com
OCR: speed, accuracy, and memory in vision models
A comparison published on November 11, 2025 evaluated two model sizes and formats for OCR and structured extraction, reporting trade-offs in speed, accuracy, and memory use.
- 18 days ago x.com
Verifiable OCR for complex documents
A post published on October 22, 2025 presents olmOCR 2, a model for converting PDFs and scans into text, including tables, equations, and handwriting, using synthetic data and unit tests as verifiable rewards.
- 18 days ago x.com
PP-OCRv6: multilingual OCR at the edge
In a June 11, 2026 publication, Baidu presents PP-OCRv6, with claimed support for more than 48 languages and three model sizes for edge deployment.
- 18 days ago x.com
Extracting text from PDFs with olmOCR
In a post published on February 25, 2025, AllenAI introduced olmOCR, an open-source tool for extracting plain text from different types of PDFs that can run on a GPU.
- 18 days ago x.com
Zerox: structured document extraction
A post published on August 10, 2025 describes an open-source OCR and document extraction project that uses schemas to retrieve specific fields.
- 19 days ago github.com
Tax-page classifier evaluated on 261 forms
A GitHub repository describes an open-source classifier for tax-document pages and reports 100% strict accuracy on 261 IRS forms, at about US$0.001 per page.
- 19 days ago github.com
How to structure OCR testing for your business
In a post published on July 25, 2026, the author says Baidu Unlimited OCR was added to mlx-vlm and plans to evaluate it using an OCR benchmark.
- 19 days ago x.com
New OCR models expand document-processing options
A post published on September 18, 2026 presents WeVisDoc 2B and 4B under Apache 2.0, and jina-ocr-v1 under a non-commercial license. It reports a 95.38 score for WeVisDoc-4B on OmniDocBench v1.6 and identifies NaviDC-OCR as the current SOTA.
- 19 days ago github.com
OCR for long documents in a single pass
A post published on June 23, 2026 describes an OCR model that processes documents longer than 40 pages in one pass while keeping KV Cache size constant.
- 19 days ago github.com
Local iPhone OCR with API access on the network
A post published on August 26, 2026 describes iOS-OCR-Server, an open-source project that uses Apple's Vision framework to process OCR locally on an iPhone and expose an API to devices on the same network.
- 19 days ago github.com
PaddleOCR 3.7 expands inference options for OCR
In a post published on June 17, 2026, PaddleOCR announced an ONNX Runtime inference backend and CPU inference via OpenVINO, as well as GPU inference via CUDA and TensorRT. The post says PP-OCRv6 models can be up to 3.9 times faster on CPU.
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