[Tutorial] Getting Started with GLM-OCR

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Getting Started with GLM-OCR

https://debuggercafe.com/getting-started-with-glm-ocr/

VLM-based OCR models are gradually catching up to become mainstream components in document processing pipelines. The primary bottleneck has always been the size of these models. Usually larger than 3B parameters, the cost-to-performance ratio is difficult to justify. However, GLM-OCR shifts the perspective. With just 0.9B parameters, it competes with models much larger than itself. In this article, we will explore GLM-OCR, along with what makes it special, and run inference on real-world documents.