LLM Vision vs. OCR: Reliability for Document Parsing
McSumpfi · reddit · 2026-08-20
The author is building a data extraction pipeline, currently converting PDFs to Markdown before processing with an LLM. While LLM vision capabilities are powerful for tasks like browser automation, the author questions their reliability for document parsing compared to specialized OCR models like Surya.
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