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A faster Tesseract alternative: OCR PDFs to markdown on CPU with Indra OCR

Tesseract is still the default OCR engine in a lot of pipelines, mostly because it is free, local and needs no GPU. Indra OCR from Datalab keeps all three of those properties and adds layout, reading order and handwriting. This post shows how to install it, convert PDFs to markdown or JSON, and use…

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  1. 2026-11-04 04:09 · DEV Community — AI
    A faster Tesseract alternative: OCR PDFs to markdown on CPU with Indra OCR

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