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When would you use a multimodal model instead of OCR?

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When layout carries meaning: tables, forms, charts, and any scanned or photographed document. It replaces OCR plus layout reconstruction plus extraction with one call, and handles the cases where text extraction loses the structure entirely.

Reading an answer is not being able to give one. The section that teaches this is Images and documents as input, 5 hours of Multimodal input.

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