olmOCR-bench has saturated — gains now come from format matching, not better reading
VikParuchuri · x · 2026-10-10
Vik Paruchuri says his team used olmOCR-bench for over a year and considered it the fairest benchmark in the space, but it has saturated: most remaining gains come from matching its formatting, not reading better.
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