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Optical Character Recognition

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Qwen3-VL:8B local AI handwriting recognition demo output from Ollama, with unwanted corrections

PSA: local AI handwriting recognition is usable now

To my delight and surprise, local Qwen3-VL:8b WER is acceptable, even on my cryptic handwriting … »

Example Typewritten Manuscript Scan

OCR Typewritten Documents with a Local Vision Model (Qwen3-VL:8B + Ollama)

It’s now possible to get results better than Tesseract, without relying on cloud services … »