>replace their OCR pipelines with Flash for a fraction of the cost of previous solutions, it's really quite remarkable. As someone who had to build custom tool

>replace their OCR pipelines with Flash for a fraction of the cost of previous solutions, it's really quite remarkable. As someone who had to build custom tools because VLMs are so unreliable: anyone that uses VLMs for unprocessed images is in for more pain than all the providers which let LLMs without guard rails interact directly with consumers. They are very good at image labeling. They are ok at very simple documents, e.g. single column text, centered single level of headings, one image or table per page, etc. (which is what all the MVP demos show). They need another trillion parameters to become bad at complex documents with tables and images. Right now they hallucinate so badly that you simply _can't_ use them for something as simple as a table with a heading at the top, data in the middle and a summary at the bottom.