My biggest headache building a search engine for Salvadoran documents? Half the PDFs are just scans. No text, nothing to search! ▶ Full write-up: https:// joche
A developer encountered significant challenges while building a search engine for Salvadoran documents, primarily due to half of the documents being image-based PDFs without any searchable text. To overcome this, the developer utilized a local vision model and LM Studio to perform OCR on these scanned documents. This process enabled the extraction of text, making the documents searchable and usable for the search engine. AI
IMPACT Enables searchability of image-only documents, potentially improving access to information in archives and scanned collections.