Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

I've been really impressed with this model specifically because of how insanely cheap it is: https://replicate.com/ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.3-2b

I didn't expect IBM to be making relevant AI models but this thing is priced at $1 per 4,000,000 output tokens... I'm using it to transcribe handwritten input text and it works very well and super fast.

Love this! Would have liked to see something like textract for a pre-LLM benchmark (but of course that's expensive), and also a distinction between handwritten text and printed one.

But still, this is incredibly useful!

I would be curious to see how Sonnet does. Their models are pretty solid when it comes to PDFs

FYI one of the models on the battle was pretty slow to load. Are these also being rated on latency or just quality?

Please add Chandra by Datalab

Claude would be good!

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[see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]