Do We Still Need OCR? (pageindex.ai)

This blog examines the inherent limitations of the current OCR pipeline in the context of document question-answering systems from an information-theoretic perspective and discusses why a direct, vision-based approach can be more effective. It also provides a practical implementation of a vision-based question-answering system for long documents.

its super handy for lots of little usecases as well. look at the bottom of most of your bills.

we (lockbox departments in banks) use that to help assign your payment correctly