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Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Unlimited Document Length

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Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an open-source optical character recognition model. This new version utilizes a sparse reference sliding window attention mechanism, allowing it to process documents of any length without a significant increase in computational cost. The model's code and weights are publicly available on GitHub and Hugging Face under the MIT license. AI

IMPACT This release offers a new, efficient solution for processing long documents, potentially impacting industries that rely on extensive document analysis.

RANK_REASON Open-source release of a new model with novel technical approach. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2 for Unlimited Document Length

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  1. Pandaily TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] (Pandaily) ·

    Baidu Open-Sources Unlimited OCR 2, Parsing Documents of Any Length in One Pass

    Baidu's Unlimited OCR 2 uses sparse reference sliding window attention to keep decoding cost nearly flat as documents grow. Weights and code are on GitHub and Hugging Face under the MIT license.

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