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I Tested Three Vision Models on Catalog Images: OCR Was the Easy Part

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Converting a visual product catalog into structured, queryable data sounds simple on paper: Send the page image to an OCR or Vision-Language Model (VLM). Extract product codes and prices into JSON. Ingest the rows into a production database. Our hands-on benchmark with Mistral OCR , DeepSeek V4 Fla…

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  1. 2026-09-01 00:10 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I Tested Three Vision Models on Catalog Images: OCR Was the Easy Part

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