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How to Run Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 Locally: 3B MIT OCR for 300-Page PDFs

Multi-page OCR models tend to fall apart on long PDFs. The context fills up, tables start repeating themselves, and the model invents a page that doesn't exist. Baidu's Unlimited-OCR-2 is a 3B, MIT-licensed model built for that failure. According to Baidu, page 500 costs about the same per decoding…

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  1. 2026-11-08 15:00 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    How to Run Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 Locally: 3B MIT OCR for 300-Page PDFs

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