Local AI‑backed OCR that handles handwriting and degraded prints

dots.ocr "is a powerful, multilingual document parser that unifies layout detection and content recognition within a single vision-language model while maintaining good reading order. Despite its compact 1.7B-parameter LLM foundation, it achieves state-of-the-art(SOTA) performance."

• Hugging Face Spaces instance

• Dots.ocr : The best small-sized OCR ever

• macOS:

  • Converting dots.ocr to MLX: Part 1 | Part 2

  • Dots.OCR.Runner ($1.99) | Announcement | GitHub (README only, no source code)

❧ 2025-10-20