Moving search-by-image from PaddleOCR to DINOv3-q4 embeddings (with OCR kept as a fallback)
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I have a hobby project indexing trading cards, with a specialty in error and pre-print/test-print cards, plus a frontend to search the index. It's had search-by-image for a long time, running PaddleOCR entirely client side. I've never wanted to handle someone's photo on my server, so OCR was a good…
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- 2026-08-21 23:40 · r/computervision
Moving search-by-image from PaddleOCR to DINOv3-q4 embeddings (with OCR kept as a fallback)