🚀 RELEASES & LAUNCHES
- Datalab releases Indra, a 1M-parameter OCR model succeeding Tesseract
Datalab released Indra, a 1M-parameter OCR model positioned as a Tesseract successor with reported gains in quality and speed.- Datalab released Indra (datalab-to/indra-ocr), an image-to-text OCR model listed on Hugging Face and GitHub.
- The model is reported to be only 1M parameters, with benchmarks showing a notable spike in quality and speed over Tesseract.
- It targets developers doing OCR/image-to-text work, continuing a trend of sub-billion-parameter models.
- The release was shared on r/LocalLLaMA as a Tesseract successor.