Wow. The Mathpix mobile app has support for reading two column PDFs as a single column.

You can't run it locally, though, right?

> The Mathpix mobile app has support for reading two column PDFs as a single column.

Mathpix is what gave the best results when I tried a whole bunch of OCR solutions on technical PDFs (multi-column with diagrams, figures and equations). It is brilliant.

> You can't run it locally, though, right?

Unfortunately, no. Which is a shame because I also have confidential documents to OCR and there is no way I put them on someone else’s cloud.

Did you try marker? https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

I haven't tried olmocr yet and I now realize my 8GB GPU probably won't cut it, as it used a 7B param VLM model under the hood.

> Did you try marker?

I did not, but I will. Thanks for the pointer!