19 stories tagged ocr, newest first.
29 points by cyrillsemah | 8 comments
Landing page for Sygal, a desktop app that converts PDFs, Office files, scans, web pages and YouTube links into Markdown and JSON locally for AI use.
40 points by ritzaco | 7 comments
Unsiloed engineering blog post on reviewing document extraction results with source evidence and typed questions using TypeSafe Jev, with a prescription walkthrough.
355 points by plurby | 164 comments
Roboflow blog post evaluating OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol model on vision tasks such as object detection and OCR, calling it OpenAI's best vision model.
394 points by spelk | 159 comments
Mistral AI documentation page for the OCR 4.1 model, a Document AI OCR service with paragraph-level bounding boxes and structural block labels.
689 points by ray__ | 153 comments
Mixfont experiment page for Decoy Font, a TTF font where each letter contains a decoy glyph intended to hide typed text from AI readers.
419 points by meetpateltech | 109 comments
Mistral AI's announcement page introducing OCR 4, its new document OCR and layout understanding model.
447 points by ingve | 102 comments
GitHub repository for Baidu's Unlimited-OCR, an MIT-licensed OCR model for one-shot long-horizon document parsing.
661 points by pember | 119 comments
Mistral AI announcement page for Mistral OCR 3, its optical character recognition model, shown converting a handwritten document to text.
396 points by foxbarrington | 153 comments
Forty.News is a site that republishes daily news stories from exactly 40 years ago, generated from newspaper scans via an LLM pipeline.
939 points by pierre | 226 comments
GitHub repository for DeepSeek-OCR, DeepSeek's open-source "Contexts Optical Compression" OCR model, with code, paper PDF, and MIT license.
520 points by Kortaggio | 101 comments
A search tool that lets users find text appearing on New York City streets, extracted via OCR from street-view imagery.
422 points by hemant6488 | 177 comments
A blog post describing how the author repurposed an old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered OCR server using Apple's Vision framework and an EcoFlow River 2 Pro.
326 points by PixelPanda | 72 comments
Hugging Face model card for Nanonets-OCR-s, a 3.75B-parameter image-to-markdown OCR model built on Qwen2.5-VL that converts documents into structured markdown.
1674 points by littlemerman | 404 comments
Mistral AI announcement post introducing Mistral OCR, a document understanding API, dated March 6, 2025.
373 points by LorenDB | 99 comments
Homepage of OCR4all, an open-source optical character recognition toolset with setup guides, user guides, and developer documentation.
439 points by eigenvalue | 155 comments
GitHub repository for LLM-aided OCR, a Python tool that corrects Tesseract OCR output from scanned PDFs using multi-stage LLM prompts and outputs markdown.
381 points by nateb2022 | 98 comments
GitHub repository for TextSnatcher, a Vala/GTK Linux desktop app that copies text from images using Tesseract OCR.
533 points by sebg | 84 comments
GitHub repository for Marker, a GPL-licensed tool by Vik Paruchuri that converts PDF documents to Markdown quickly and accurately.
412 points by hprotagonist | 140 comments
An Online Etymology Dictionary column arguing that Google Ngram Viewer n-gram data is unreliable and misleading for word history research.