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olmOCR

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Hugging Face: The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators JournalistsonHF. The Essential AI Toolkit for Journalists and Content Creators. Hugging Face, n.d., https://huggingface.co/spaces/JournalistsonHF/ai-toolkit. (Accessed March 2025).
olmOCR converts PDFs and other documents into plain text while preserving natural reading order. It supports complex elements like tables, equations, and handwriting, making it ideal for processing academic papers and technical documents. Users can run olmOCR on their own GPUs, enabling high-throughput document conversion at scale. This allows for cost-effective processing, estimated at just $190 per million pages, making it suitable for large-scale academic and technical archives.
Newsgathering and Fact-Checking

Data Gathering (Open-source intelligence tools, Geospatial data platforms, Public record datasets) Data Verification (Fact-checking, Reverse-image search, Source tracing) Social Media Mining (Automated filtering, Pattern identification) Hazard Monitoring and Warning Systems

#deploy Run olmOCR on personal GPUs for scalable, high-throughput document conversion at minimal cost. Process large volumes of documents efficiently, with an estimated cost of $190 per million pages.
#generate Convert PDFs and other documents into plain text while preserving reading order and formatting elements like tables and equations. Ensure high accuracy with advanced prompting techniques trained on academic and technical content.
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Deployment Type
Web Platform
Community Moderation
Does not require community manager
Difficulty Level
Requires developer
License
Open-source
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