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Ollama-OCR passes 2,000 GitHub stars
How Ollama-OCR works
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pip install ollama-ocr
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ollama pull model
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Drag-and-drop or Python
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Export MD/JSON/table
Local VLM vs conventional OCR
Local VLM OCR
new
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Fully offline, private
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Zero API cost
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Handles tables and handwriting
Tesseract / Cloud APIs
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Google Vision, AWS Textract
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Data sent externally
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Per-call cost
Model choices by use case
Llama 3.2 Vision
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High-accuracy reading
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11B uses lots of memory
Granite / Moondream
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Granite: tables and figures
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Moondream: edge devices
MIT-licensed with integrations
One option in local OCR
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An open-source local OCR tool called Ollama-OCR has topped two thousand GitHub stars.