What Is OCR? The Best Open‑Source OCR Models (And When to Use Each)
Ever wished you could search a stack of scanned PDFs like a regular document? Or pull totals from 10,000 receipts without typing a word? That’s the magic of OCR—Optical Character Recognition. It turns images with text into machine-readable words you can search, analyze, and automate around. Here’s the surprising part: OCR isn’t just “read text…