I tuned an OCR pipeline for weeks. A vision model beat it in nine seconds.

I spent weeks tuning a local OCR pipeline. Downscaling, adaptive thresholding, per-word confidence filtering, all of it. A vision model beat it in nine seconds on the same photographs. Here is the constraint that got me there. I built a reading coach for my two kids, and the reading and the writing do not happen on a screen. The child reads a... Weiterlesen: I tuned an OCR pipeline for weeks. A vision model beat it in nine sec…