FiftyOne OCR Plugins: GLM-OCR vs LightOnOCR-2-1B
FiftyOne offers two OCR plugins for text extraction from images: GLM-OCR provides high accuracy with advanced language models while LightOnOCR-2-1B delivers
Someone found that FiftyOne now has two OCR plugins that work pretty well for extracting text from images in datasets.
GLM-OCR seems to be the winner - it’s faster and handles structured output reliably. LightOnOCR-2-1B is the alternative if needed.
Quick setup:
Then just point it at your dataset and it extracts text right into the fields. The quickstart notebook shows the basic workflow.
Both plugins have full docs on the FiftyOne site (GLM-OCR | LightOnOCR-2), but GLM-OCR is noticeably faster in practice and better at returning structured data instead of messy text blobs.
Beats manually copying text from hundreds of images or paying for API calls.
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