Baidu's Qianfan-OCR Zaps Document Hell — But Don't Ditch Your Scanner Yet
Your inbox overflows with scanned PDFs and messy invoices. Baidu's new Qianfan-OCR might turn that chaos into instant Markdown gold — if it lives up to the hype.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Qianfan-OCR tops OCR benchmarks with 93.12 on OmniDocBench, beating Gemini and DeepSeek.
- Layout-as-Thought recovers explicit layout analysis in an end-to-end model.
- Runs at 1 PPS on A100 GPU, fully GPU-centric for speed.
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Originally reported by MarkTechPost
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