This SMALL OCR AI is FREE! 💥Nanonets OCR-S Explained 💥
AI Summary
This video reviews the Nanits OCRS small model, a free OCR solution fine-tuned from the Quinn 2.5 vision language model. The model excels at optical character recognition including printed text, handwritten documents, LaTeX equations, image descriptions, signature detection, watermark extraction, and table extraction from PDFs. It claims to outperform the paid OCR API by Mistral AI in several aspects such as recognizing equation numbers, describing images, and detecting watermarks. The video demonstrates running the model via a Google Colab notebook with a Gradio app interface for easy use by uploading documents to convert them into markdown. The presenter tests the model on a complex Nvidia blog post screenshot, highlighting both accurate recognitions and limitations where the model missed or altered some content. Overall, the review concludes the Nanits OCRS model is a solid, open-source OCR tool powered by visual language modeling, very useful for tasks like PDF table extraction and document digitization, with some room for improvement in perfect accuracy.