Qwen 3 and 3.5 models are quite capable. Perhaps the greatest benefit of GLM-OCR is speed: it's only a 0.9 billion parameter model, so it's fast enough to run on large volumes of complicated scans even if all you have for inference is an entry level MacBook or a low end Nvidia card. Even CPU based inference on basic laptops is probably tolerable with it for small page volumes.
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Qwen 3 and 3.5 models are quite capable. Perhaps the greatest benefit of GLM-OCR is speed: it's only a 0.9 billion parameter model, so it's fast enough to run on large volumes of complicated scans even if all you have for inference is an entry level MacBook or a low end Nvidia card. Even CPU based inference on basic laptops is probably tolerable with it for small page volumes.