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Baidu open-sources Unlimited OCR 2 for unlimited document length parsing

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Baidu has released Unlimited OCR 2, an open-source document parsing model capable of processing documents of any length in a single pass. This new version utilizes Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention, which maintains consistent memory and latency regardless of document size. Baidu demonstrated its capability by parsing the entire Harry Potter series and achieved a score of 84.6 on the MPDocBench benchmark. AI

IMPACT Enables processing of extremely long documents, potentially improving efficiency in legal, research, and archival applications.

RANK_REASON Open-source release of a specialized AI model with benchmark results. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Baidu open-sources Unlimited OCR 2 for unlimited document length parsing

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Baidu has open-sourced Unlimited OCR 2, a document parser that reads documents of any length in one pass. It uses Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention, kee

    Baidu has open-sourced Unlimited OCR 2, a document parser that reads documents of any length in one pass. It uses Sparse Reference Sliding Window Attention, keeping memory and latency nearly constant. Baidu says it parsed all seven Harry Potter books, 3,600 pages, in one run, and…

    LINKS pandaily.com/baidu-open-sources-unlimited…

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