Current 80/20-rule-ignoring AI dogma in a nutshell.

And I assume the multimodal tools still use OCR for text extraction, or am I missing something?

My understanding is that they're still doing OCR+NLP, just differently than traditional approaches.

I think that's more because of the current state of the industry, a lot of those models are either internal, paywall locked or annoying to use. I don't want to waste effort in trying to sign up for a 4 week trail of X service to perform a one off task.

Unfortunately, this post didn't really elucidate or go into an interesting topic within this space.

I'm not expecting a research paper, but it would be great to get some stats, graphs, examples and meat on the bones. I opened this up expecting some actual examples of problems within OCR & NLP and showing how X multi-modal model solves them.

While Gemini is nice, it would be nice to have a pipeline that works locally on a reasonably RAM’d unified memory Mac or Framework AMD board.