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Jan 1, 202625 min read

Why Traditional OCR Fails on Real-World Documents: The Shift to Multimodal AI

Why Traditional OCR Fails on Real-World Documents: The Shift to Multimodal AI For decades, businesses have chased the dream of a paperless office, a world where information flows seamlessly from physical documents into digital systems. The cornerstone of this vision has always been Optical Character Recognition (or OCR), a technology that promised to be the bridge between the analog and digital worlds....