[HN Gopher] OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from ...
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       OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs
        
       Author : eamag
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-02-25 16:51 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (olmocr.allenai.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (olmocr.allenai.org)
        
       | rahimnathwani wrote:
       | Good:
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       | - no cloud service required, can run on local Nvidia GPU
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       | - outputs a single stream of text with the correct reading order
       | (even for multi column PDF)
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       | - recognizes handwriting and stuff
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       | Bad:
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       | - doesn't seem to extract the text within diagrams (which I guess
       | is fine because that text would be useless to an LLM)
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       | OP is the demo page, which lets you OCR 10 pages.
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       | The code needs an Nvidia GPU to run:
       | https://github.com/allenai/olmocr
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       | Not sure if the VRAM requirements because I haven't tried running
       | locally yet.
        
       | zitterbewegung wrote:
       | Would like to know how this compares to
       | https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
        
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