[eichin]

I was surprised to learn (from this article) that there are local models that can do this (not sure if there are any that run on hardware I actually have though, unlike Tesseract which works fine on the scanning hardware I set up for it ~5 years ago.) For privacy reasons, cloud-based OCR is a non-starter...

[segmondy]

surprisingly, the ocr models don't need much vram, they are often about 2b, so most 6gb GPU will handle it fine.