Private OCR Benchmark on 338 Scanned Government Pages Won by 0.8B Model

A private evaluation of 9 open-weight OCR models on 338 scanned 20th-century government documents, judged pairwise by a VLM over 10,730+ comparisons, found a 0.8B model ranking first while 3B-scale models only placed 4th and 7th.

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• Private OCR eval on 338 scanned government pages: 0.8B model beats 3B-class rivals — vanstriendaniel · 2026-11-10
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