AI systems
DeepSeek-OCR reads documents as compressed vision tokens
Payments runs on documents - checks, wires, invoices, KYC files - and the OCR that reads them chokes on handwriting and damage. DeepSeek-OCR processes a page as roughly 100 visual tokens instead of a thousand text tokens, and it is open source. The headline accuracy comes with a compression ceiling worth knowing.
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