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		tovej 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLMs solving problems OCR+NLP couldn't Are LLMs not NLP? They process natural language, no? And I assume the multimodal tools still use OCR for text extraction, or am I missing something? My understanding is that they're still doing OCR+NLP, just differently than traditional approaches.

universesquid 7 months ago [–]

1.) technically yes, most models used for that task are NLP but not LLMs in the modern sense though 2.) Actually they don't. Multimodal LLMs parse PDFs by taking multiple screenshots on each page.

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