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The Dedicated OCR Engine Lost to the General-Purpose Model — 300 Slower

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Originally published on hexisteme notes . I had a 27B vision model running locally (IQ4_XS quantized, 15GB resident) and needed to decide whether it was worth using for OCR. The comparison was macOS's built-in Vision framework ( VNRecognizeTextRequest ) — a dedicated text-recognition engine, free,…

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    The Dedicated OCR Engine Lost to the General-Purpose Model — 300 Slower

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