where are you hosting it?
aws
Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
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Re: Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
#12It's got the word 'open' everywhere, yet it doesn't show any documentation about self-hosting. Functionally, it might as well be closed-sourced sass using PaddleOCR-VL.
Thats exactly what it is. Its just an api for PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. I wasn't trying to hide that, im sorry if it came out that way. 'Open' because its just an open-weight model under the hood.
I appreciate your reply. So its value really comes down to the cost and not really its openness. You might be thinking, well, it's because it's open that I can have such a low cost, but that's not really what the user thinks when looking at the web page.
Re: Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats exactly what it is. Its just an api for PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. I wasn't trying to hide that, im sorry if it came out that way. 'Open' because its just an open-weight model under the hood.
I appreciate your reply. So its value really comes down to the cost and not really its openness. You might be thinking, well, it's because it's open that I can have such a low cost, but that's not really what the user thinks when looking at the web page.
I would get it as like - open source models?
Re: Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thats exactly what it is. Its just an api for PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. I wasn't trying to hide that, im sorry if it came out that way. 'Open' because its just an open-weight model under the hood.
I appreciate your reply. So its value really comes down to the cost and not really its openness. You might be thinking, well, it's because it's open that I can have such a low cost, but that's not really what the user thinks when looking at the web page.
yeah, the value is the price. And its not cheap because its open, its just the cost of running GPUs. Perhaps other providers have similar costs, just 1000% margins on top. this is just pure GPU cost with basically no markup.
But being open-weight model, there is no vendor-lockin. if you stop liking the api endpoint, or we were to increase prices, just run the model yourself elsewhere. So in a sense it is open. At least more than openAI or openrouter :)
Re: Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it
#15It's got the word 'open' everywhere, yet it doesn't show any documentation about self-hosting. Functionally, it might as well be closed-sourced sass using PaddleOCR-VL.
Thats exactly what it is. Its just an api for PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. I wasn't trying to hide that, im sorry if it came out that way. 'Open' because its just an open-weight model under the hood.
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