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		benterix 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qwen3-VL I wonder why you chose Qwen specifically - Mistral has a specialized model just for OCR that they advertised heavily (I tested it and it works surprisingly well, at least on English-language books from 80s and 90s).

z2 17 days ago [–]

Mistral's model was terrible when I tested it on non Latin characters and on anything that isn't neat printed text (i.e. handwriting)

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