Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an NVIDIA Spark via brute force using Claude Code
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DeepSeek released DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned for optical character recognition, but getting it running on NVIDIA Spark hardware proved challenging due to CUDA compatibility issues. Using Claude Code in a Docker sandbox with full permissions, the AI assistant spent 40 minutes troubleshooting and successfully resolved the problems by finding compatible PyTorch 2.9.0 ARM64 wheels and testing different OCR prompts, ultimately producing working scripts and detailed implementation notes.
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