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just-in-time OCR is all the rage.

just-in-time OCR is all the rage. most pipelines parse every page before anyone asks a question. for an agent working…

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just-in-time OCR is all the rage. most pipelines parse every page before anyone asks a question. for an agent working through an ad-hoc data room, that's slow, expensive, and most of those pages never get read. the better pattern is just-in-time OCR in two passes: ✅️ LiteParse (free, OSS, Rust, 50+ formats) does a fast layout-aware first pass: spatial text, bounding boxes, headings, tables, and a per-page complexity flag. a full data room in 32 seconds. ✅️ LlamaParse zooms in on only the pages that need it, by page number, and returns cell-level tables, bounding boxes, and confidence scor

Posted by LlamaIndex 🦙 (120.4k followers) 5 days ago · 82 likes · 26k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as AI dev tools.

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