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Document parsers vs just letting the VLM read PDF?

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Now that the vision models can read pdfs directly where do you reach out for parsers or is there actually the need of any in real time work?? Like for a single clean page at low volume a vlm reads it ok and a parser is just overhead, the parse layer earns its place on bulk and long docs where recal…

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  1. 2026-08-31 13:26 · r/computervision
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