Four Lightweight OCR Models You Can Run Locally on a Laptop
vanstriendaniel · x · 2026-08-09
A roundup of lightweight OCR models capable of running locally on laptops, including surya-ocr-2 (0.7B), OvisOCR2 (0.9B), PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 (1B), and dots.mocr (3B). The author notes that all four can be executed via llama.cpp or MLX, specifically recommending OvisOCR2 for its excellent but underrated performance. For simple text extraction, the traditional Tesseract engine remains a viable option.
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