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2026-08-26
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VLMs & Multimodal
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Document AI and OCR Today — How an LLM Ends Up Reading Your Invoices
How machines came to read invoices and scanned PDFs, from first principles: text detection and CTC, how errors are measured (CER), LayoutLM's trick of embedding coordinates alongside words, the OCR-free Donut line, and today's habit of handing the page straight to a VLM — plus the walls that matter in production: tables, handwriting, and hallucination.