2025-02-06

Pulse AI Blog - Why LLMs Suck at OCR

Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant limitations in OCR tasks due to their probabilistic nature and inability to maintain precise visual information, particularly struggling with complex layouts and tables. LLMs' vision processing architecture leads to critical errors in data extraction, including financial and medical data corruption, while also being susceptible to prompt injection vulnerabilities.

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