docs/research/04_ocr.json

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    "url": "https://www.koncile.ai/en/ressources/paddleocr-analyse-avantages-alternatives-open-source",
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    "url": "https://www.ultralytics.com/blog/popular-open-source-ocr-models-and-how-they-work",
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    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1eecto9/best_ocr",
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    "url": "https://www.facebook.com/groups/pythonconnect/posts/903824913294791",
    "name": "What are lightweight OCR solutions for Python? - Facebook",
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    "name": "substitute PaddleOCR for Tesseract-OCR · Issue #10232 - GitHub",
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