Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
SMRTR summary
DeepSeek released an open OCR model that excels at mathematical notation, but requires modern GPUs. Using Modal's serverless platform, the author deployed a FastAPI server with GPU access to OCR a 600-page statistics textbook. The setup processes PDFs in batches, costs around $2 for hundreds of pages, and produces high-quality searchable markdown text from previously unsearchable scanned content.
SMRTR provides this summary for quick context. The original article belongs to Daily.dev.
Read the original article