ML//multimodal//OCR

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the task of extracting machine-readable text from images, PDFs and handwriting. It is workhorse functionality, because most enterprise AI pipelines need document ingestion before reasoning.

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the task of extracting machine-readable text from images, PDFs and handwriting. It is workhorse functionality, because most enterprise AI pipelines need document ingestion before reasoning.

Classic OCR (Tesseract) handles clean documents, while modern VLMs (GPT-4V, Gemini) handle messy real-world images. Specialized models such as Mistral OCR and VLM Run bridge traditional accuracy with multimodal understanding.