Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation https://ift.tt/L31Kc5d

Show HN: OCR Benchmark Focusing on Automation OCR/Document extraction field has seen lot of action recently with releases like Mixtral OCR, Andrew Ng's agentic document processing etc. Also there are several benchmarks for OCR, however all testing for something slightly different which make good comparison of models very hard. To give an example, some models like mixtral-ocr only try to convert a document to markdown format. You have to use another LLM on top of it to get the final result. Some VLM’s directly give structured information like key fields from documents like invoices, but you have to either add business rules on top of it or use some LLM as a judge kind of system to get sense of which output needs to be manually reviewed or can be taken as correct output. No benchmark attempts to measure the actual rate of automation you can achieve. We have tried to solve this problem with a benchmark that is only applicable for documents/usecases where you are looking for automation and its trying to measure that end to end automation level of different models or systems. We have collected a dataset that represents documents like invoices etc which are applicable in processes where automation is needed vs are more copilot in nature where you would need to chat with document. Also have annotated these documents and published the dataset and repo so it can be extended. Here is writeup: https://ift.tt/wETgKe6 Dataset: https://ift.tt/h5qaW8l Github: https://ift.tt/zyOrHCs Looking for suggestions on how this benchmark can be improved further. https://ift.tt/wETgKe6 March 13, 2025 at 02:19AM