I tuned an OCR pipeline for weeks. A vision model beat it in nine seconds.

I spent weeks tuning a local OCR pipeline. Downscaling, adaptive thresholding, per-word confidence filtering, all of it. A vision model beat it in nine seconds on the same photographs. Here is the constraint that got me there. I built a reading coach for my two kids, and the reading and the writing…

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1. 2026-10-21 22:34 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
   I tuned an OCR pipeline for weeks. A vision model beat it in nine seconds.