"OCR is superhuman now" — a short take on document AI's leap
generativist · x · 2026-10-06
The author briefly remarks that OCR has become "superhuman" and finds it fun. No specific model or benchmark is mentioned, but the sentiment reflects how document and handwriting recognition has shifted from a hard engineering problem to a near-solved capability in recent multimodal models.
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