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Making It Easier & Cheaper to Deploy with Roboflow

18 Sep 2026 • 4 min read

Making It Easier & Cheaper to Deploy with Roboflow

Our mission is to make the world programmable, and accelerate vision AI into the world. That means building an ecosystem where developers can experiment, founders can turn prototypes into businesses, and people who know a problem firsthand can use vision AI to solve it.

Best OCR Models for Text Recognition in Images

1 Jun 2026 • 8 min read

Best OCR Models for Text Recognition in Images

See how 63 different OCR models compare for scene text recognition across industrial domains.

Finetuning Moondream2 for Computer Vision Tasks

17 May 2024 • 8 min read

Finetuning Moondream2 for Computer Vision Tasks

In this guide, we finetune and improve Moondream2, a small, local, fast multimodal Vision Language Model, for a computer vision task.

PaliGemma: An Open Multimodal Model by Google

15 May 2024 • 10 min read

PaliGemma: An Open Multimodal Model by Google

PaliGemma is a vision language model (VLM) developed and released by Google that has multimodal capabilities. Learn how to use it.

GPT-4o: The Comprehensive Guide and Explanation

14 May 2024 • 10 min read

GPT-4o: The Comprehensive Guide and Explanation

Learn what GPT-4o is, how it differs from previous models, evaluate its performance, and use cases for GPT-4o.

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3 May 2024 • 5 min read

Realtime Video Stream Analysis with Computer Vision

In this guide, we use computer vision to process multiple live video streams to perform analysis and gain insights.

What is Handwriting Recognition?

12 Apr 2024 • 5 min read

What is Handwriting Recognition?

In this guide, we go over an overview of handwriting recognition, including the use cases, challenges, and ways of using of handwriting recognition, as well as a tutorial.

How to Use OCR on Videos

1 Apr 2024 • 3 min read

How to Use OCR on Videos

In this guide, we cover the process of how to use OCR on videos together with computer vision to solve real-world problems.

How to Use YOLO-World With Active Learning to Train a Custom Model

29 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use YOLO-World With Active Learning to Train a Custom Model

In this guide, we demonstrate an approach where we can start using the benefits of YOLO-World now, while simultaneously collecting data to train a faster custom model later.

How to Use Multiple Models to Label Datasets with Autodistill

16 Feb 2024 • 5 min read

How to Use Multiple Models to Label Datasets with Autodistill

In this guide, we cover the benefits of and how to combine multiple models in order to automatically label a dataset of images.

Occupancy Analytics with Computer Vision

31 Jan 2024 • 9 min read

Occupancy Analytics with Computer Vision

Computer vision can be used to understand videos for real-time analytics and automatically gather information about complex physical environments.

AWS rekognition test

12 Jan 2024 • 5 min read

Comparing Specialized Models to AWS Rekognition Test

In this guide, we cover how to compare Amazon Rekognition, a suite of computer vision APIs, against each other.

Google's Gemini Multimodal Model: What We Know

7 Dec 2023 • 11 min read

Google's Gemini Multimodal Model: What We Know

In this guide, we are going to discuss what Gemini is, for whom it is available, and what Gemini can do (according to the information available from Google). We will also look ahead to potential applications for Gemini in computer vision tasks.

Comparing Custom Models to Google Cloud Vision API

6 Dec 2023 • 6 min read

Comparing Custom Models to Google Cloud Vision API

In this guide, we go over how to evaluate object detection models on Roboflow Universe versus Google Cloud Vision.

Comparing Computer Vision Models On Custom Data

24 Oct 2023 • 5 min read

Comparing Computer Vision Models On Custom Data

In this guide, show how to compare how two person detection models on Roboflow Universe perform using a benchmark dataset and supervision.

Using Computer Vision to Improve Railway Safety

19 Sep 2023 • 6 min read

Using Computer Vision to Improve Railway Safety

In this guide, we show how to use computer vision to identify hazardous situations on railways for use in building safety systems.

How to Use Kaggle for Computer Vision

6 Sep 2023 • 8 min read

How to Use Kaggle for Computer Vision

In this guide, we show how to use Kaggle Notebooks for computer vision tasks.

How to Use Node-RED with Roboflow

25 Aug 2023 • 9 min read

How to Use Node-RED with Roboflow

In this guide, we show how to run inference on computer vision models with Roboflow and Node-RED.

Ultimate Guide to Converting Bounding Boxes, Masks and Polygons

15 Aug 2023 • 6 min read

Ultimate Guide to Converting Bounding Boxes, Masks and Polygons

In this guide, we show how to convert bounding boxes (xyxy), masks, and polygons.

A LLaMa 2, Midjourney & Autodistill Computer Vision Pipeline

31 Jul 2023 • 6 min read

A LLaMa 2, Midjourney & Autodistill Computer Vision Pipeline

Combine the use of Midjourney, Autodistill, LLaMa 2 and Roboflow to create a object detection model without data collection or labeling.

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21 Jul 2023 • 5 min read

Prompting Google Bard with Images & How it Compares to Bing

SUMMARY Google Bard's image input capabilities, tested against counting, object detection, and classification tasks using datasets from Roboflow Universe, fall short of Bing/GPT-4 for structured computer vision work. Bard refuses images containing human faces entirely rather than blurring them, and it undercounts objects even in straightforward

bing

7 Jul 2023 • 7 min read

How Good Is Bing (GPT-4) Multimodality?

In this blog post, we qualitatively analyze how well Bing’s combination of text and image input ability performs at object detection tasks.

Recognizing Math Equations with Computer Vision

30 Jun 2023 • 7 min read

Recognizing Math Equations with Computer Vision

In this article, we show a process for recognizing math equations using computer vision.

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