Installing OCR, three model tiers side by side, the reflex is "pick the biggest, it's most accurate"....
Installing OCR, three model tiers side by side, the reflex is "pick the biggest, it's most accurate". Reading what the tiers actually say, the 20x size gap doesn't buy one single thing.
ImgIng uses PP-OCRv6 in three tiers. Here's what separates them:
Tier
Size
Languages
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A Blog post by PaddlePaddle on Hugging Face
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