[D] Large scale OCR [D]

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A r/MachineLearning discussion on large-scale OCR reflects the broader research community's interest in scaling optical character recognition pipelines to handle millions of documents efficiently. Modern approaches favor vision-language model (VLM)-based OCR systems—such as DeepSeek-OCR, OlmOCR, and GLM-OCR—which leverage transformer architectures and batch inference frameworks like vLLM to process documents at scale. Key practitioner concerns in this space include throughput, cost per page, handling complex layouts (tables, formulas, mixed-language content), and compliance constraints that may require on-premise deployment over cloud APIs.

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