olmOCR vs. Gemini 2.0 Flash: A Comparison for PDF OCR Ali Sheikh · Follow 4 min read · Just now PDFs are everywhere, legal contracts, financial reports, research papers, but extracting structured data from them, especially complex tables, is a notorious challenge. Tools like olmOCR and Gemini 2.0 Flash tackle this problem with distinct approaches. In this article, we compare their performance on tricky PDFs, breaking down their strengths and key differences. What is olmOCR? olmOCR is an open-source toolkit designed to convert PDFs into markdown. Built on the Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct model and fine-tuned on 250,000 diverse PDF pages, ranging from digital files to scanned books, it aims to preserve the reading order of tables, equations, and other elements. Priced at $190 per million pages, it’s a cost-effective choice with […]
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