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OCR-VLM

A vision-language model specialized for optical character recognition — reading text, tables, forms, and structured documents from images. Modern VLMs handle most OCR as a subtask, replacing dedicated OCR pipelines for enterprise document workflows.

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Vision-Language Model (VLM)
A multimodal model that accepts both images and text as input and typically produces text output. Frontier VLMs (GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro) handle document understanding, UI comprehension, chart reading, and visual reasoning as first-class tasks alongside pure language work.

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