[krapht]

I just built a pipeline with tesseract last year. What's better that is open source and runnable locally?

VLLM hallucination is a blocker for my use case.

[criddell]

If you are stuck with open source, then your options are limited.

Otherwise I'd say just use your operating system's OCR API. Both Windows and MacOS have excellent APIs for this.

[stavros]

How is a hallucination worse than a Tesseract error?

[krapht]

Because the VLM doesn't know it hallucinated. When you get a Tesseract error you can flag the OCR job for manual review.

[jgalt212]

Hallucinations are hard to detect unless you are a subject-matter expert. I don't have direct experience with Tesseract error detection.

[gessha]

Latter is more likely to get debugged.

[amelius]

It could hallucinate obscene language, something which is less likely with classic OCR.