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I'm not completely up to date but a few months ago Qwen2-VL (runnable locally) was able to perfectly read text from images. So I'd say you would still need to preprocess that folder to texts to get any reasonable speed for queries but after that if you feed the data to a LLM with long enough context it should just work. If on the other hand it's too much data and the LLM is required to use tools then it is indeed still too soon. But it is coming.