Ollama-OCR, a local text-extraction tool, adds direct PDF processing

Ollama-OCR, an open-source OCR tool that extracts text from images and PDFs locally using Ollama's vision language models, is drawing attention among developers. Built by developer Anoop Maurya (imanoop7), the GitHub repository offers both a Python package installable via pip install ollama-ocr and a Streamlit-based web app, released under the MIT license. At the time of research it had reached roughly 2.3k stars and 256 forks.