@pervognsen @wolfpld Yeah, but the LLMs can do something that can't be done without them. They're good for indexing images for search, rather than replacing the original copies with something more compact. Or providing a guess at handwriting in historical documents with a human in the loop.

(I'm not sure what you're actually using OCR for, mostly I'm pasting text from screenshots - where I'd prefer Apple's OCR. It works very well and errors are unlikely to mislead me.)

@wolfpld @pervognsen Oh, and I see "SystemTracing" -> "SystemTraining" here. They're surprisingly hard to find by eye.

https://mastodon.social/@pervognsen/116098703237535154

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wolfpld/116088970554232592

@wolfpld @pervognsen For anyone reading along, the expected text is "Nie ma innych wątków!", and the test image and thread are here:

https://mastodon.social/@wolfpld@mastodon.gamedev.place/116088970688566418

@wolfpld @pervognsen DeepSeek-OCR 3B also hallucinated "llvm.pl.so.2", it was clearly the worst I tested.

Some counter-examples, which Opus tells me are wrong, but garbled:
* "Nie ma innego wątków!" (Qwen3-VL 8B)
* "Nie ma imnych wetków!" (MiniCPM-V 4.5)

Bigger models are obviously *way* better, but I suspect you would see similar failure modes on borderline-legible text.