Why LLMs still have problems with OCR

Document ingestion and the launch of Gemini 2.0 caused a lot of buzz this week. As a team building in this space, this is something we researched thoroughly. Here’s our take: ingestion is a multistep pipeline, and maintaining confidence from LLM nondeterministic outputs over millions of pages is a problem. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958 Points: 94 # Comments: 72

Fév 8, 2025 - 08:04
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Why LLMs still have problems with OCR

Document ingestion and the launch of Gemini 2.0 caused a lot of buzz this week. As a team building in this space, this is something we researched thoroughly. Here’s our take: ingestion is a multistep pipeline, and maintaining confidence from LLM nondeterministic outputs over millions of pages is a problem.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958

Points: 94

# Comments: 72