ML//Multimodal//OCR

- Optical Character Recognition — extracting text from images, PDFs, handwriting.

Optical Character Recognition — extracting text from images, PDFs, handwriting.

Classic OCR (Tesseract) handles clean documents; modern VLMs (GPT-4V, Gemini) handle messy real-world images.

Mistral OCR, VLM Run: specialized models bridging traditional accuracy with multimodal understanding.

Workhorse functionality — most enterprise AI pipelines need document ingestion before reasoning.