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Building an offline Math-to-LaTeXOCR forAndroidvia llama.cpp
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Convert hand-written math formulas to LaTeX on-device
Jan 2026 · offlineocr.zhenglingyun.uk
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Almost exactly 1 year ago, I submitted something to HN about using Llama2 (which had just come out) to improve the output of Tesseract OCR by correcting obvious OCR errors [0]. That was exciting at the time because OpenAI's API calls were still quite expensive for GPT4, and the cost of running it on a book-length PDF would just be prohibitive. In contrast, you could run Llama2 locally on a machine with just a CPU, and it would be extremely slow, but "free" if you had a spare machine lying around. Well, it's amazing how things have changed since then. Not only have models gotten a lot better,…
2024 · github.com
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2021 · github.com
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I built OCR Arena as a free playground for the community to compare leading foundation VLMs and open-source OCR models side-by-side. Upload any doc, measure accuracy, and (optionally) vote for the models on a public leaderboard. It currently has Gemini 3, dots.ocr, DeepSeek, GPT5, olmOCR 2, Qwen, and a few others. If there's any others you'd like included, let me know!
Nov 2025 · ocrarena.ai
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on an OCR pipeline specifically optimized for machine learning dataset preparation. It’s designed to process complex academic materials — including math formulas, tables, figures, and multilingual text — and output clean, structured formats like JSON and Markdown. Some features: • Multi-stage OCR combining DocLayout-YOLO, Google Vision, MathPix, and Gemini Pro Vision • Extracts and understands diagrams, tables, LaTeX-style math, and multilingual text (Japanese/Korean/English) • Highly tuned for ML training pipelines, including dataset generation and…
2025 · github.com
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Faithful, 100% local OCR Chrome extension | code, prose, formulas (LaTeX) & tables. No server, nothing leaves your device, no hallucinated text. PP-OCRv5 on ONNX Runtime Web. - Fanfulla/OCR-buddy
Jul 2026 · github.com
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Jan 2026 · github.com
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2023 · github.com
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Nov 2025 · texocr.netlify.app
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Built this because people working with large document sets had no free tool that handled batch processing cleanly. Tesseract is free and runs locally. For anything that needs more accuracy — Google Vision, Gemini, or any OpenRouter model — you bring your own API key. No subscription, no markup on your usage. Export as TXT, JSON, XML or PDF. AI engines support custom prompts so you can translate, extract form fields, or get structured output in one step. App: https://onlineocrfree.qzz.io Source: https://github.com/naimurhasan/online-ocr-free
Mar 2026 · onlineocrfree.qzz.io
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I've been disappointed by the very poor quality of results that I generally get when trying to run OCR on older scanned documents, especially ones that are typewritten or otherwise have unusual or irregular typography. I recently had the idea of using Llama2 to use common sense reasoning and subject level expertise to correct transcription errors in a "smart" way-- basically doing what a human proofreader who is familiar with the topic might do. I came up with the linked script that takes a PDF as input, runs Tesseract on it to get an initial text extraction, and then feeds this…
2023 · github.com
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Mar 2026 · llamaindex.ai
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2022 · myfreeocr.com
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Lightweight screenshot & OCR —no data leaves your PC
Jun 2026 · apps.microsoft.com
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