Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
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This was not supposed to become a product.When PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 dropped, independent benchmarks put it at the top of document parsing models.
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I assumed that even after getting it running, serving a vision-language model would be expensive.It turns out the opposite is true.
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Once I had it running properly, the cost was absurdly low.
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At proper GPU utilization, the cost is only around $1 per 1,000 pages.The nearest competitors are either much lower quality (Azure Read) or absurdly expensive (Extend or Reducto).
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Even Mistral OCR 4 which is really good and pretty cheap is still 4x more expensive.So I had to share it.
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