# olmOCR – Open-Source OCR for Accurate Document Conversion

<https://olmocr.allenai.org/>

- Host: [olmocr.allenai.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/olmocr.allenai.org/)
- Saved: February 27, 2025 (2025-02-28T01:46:40Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Impressive solution for turning PDFs and even photos of handwritten text into text data. Claims to handle tables well which is usually the downfall of all of these types of solutions. Uses a "vision language model".

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT311: Weekly Thing 311 / WikiTok, Bookmarklets, Tapestry](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/311/), Notable

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