Christian Kasim Loan is a computer scientist with over 10 years of coding experience who works for John Snow Labs as a Senior Data Scientist where he helps porting the latest and greatest Machine Learning Models to Spark and created the NLU library.
In the first two posts of this series, we benchmarked OCR on two increasingly demanding tasks: Grounded (BBox) OCR, reading text AND returning its coordinates Image → Markdown OCR, plain-text...
Most OCR tools tell you what a document says. That’s fine for search indexing and RAG. But when your workflow needs to act on a specific piece of text (redact...
In our first benchmark, we showed that JSL Vision OCR is the #1 grounded OCR model overall, beating every closed-source frontier system on the FUNSD dataset. This post answers a different question: plain-text...
If you’ve shopped for an OCR model recently, you already know the problem: every vendor claims state-of-the-art accuracy, every benchmark uses a different dataset, and “VLMs can do OCR” is...
In our previous article, JSL Vision: State-of-the-Art Document Understanding on Your Hardware, we benchmarked JSL Vision against leading open-source vision-language models on FUNSD and OmniOCR In this follow-up, we address...
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