Do We Still Need Ocr?

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mingtianzhang

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The article questions the necessity of OCR in modern document processing, sparking a discussion on its relevance and potential alternatives.

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mingtianzhangAuthor

2 months ago

This blog examines the inherent limitations of the current OCR pipeline in the context of document question-answering systems from an information-theoretic perspective and discusses why a direct, vision-based approach can be more effective. It also provides a practical implementation of a vision-based question-answering system for long documents.

5bolts

2 months ago

its super handy for lots of little usecases as well. look at the bottom of most of your bills.

we (lockbox departments in banks) use that to help assign your payment correctly

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