OCR

16 Jul 2026 • 6 min read

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.

22 May 2026 • 6 min read

Gemini 3.5 Flash for Vision: Evaluation and Benchmarks

SUMMARY Gemini 3.5 Flash, released at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, currently tops the Roboflow Vision Evals leaderboard across 67 real vision prompts covering defect detection, document understanding, object counting, and spatial reasoning. It outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro on counting and spatial tasks while running roughly

20 May 2026 • 7 min read

How to Use EasyOCR

Learn how to use OCR to read and extract text from an image.

24 Apr 2026 • 11 min read

Medical Bill OCR

In this tutorial, we use Roboflow Workflows and Google Gemini to scan any medical bill image, extract structured data automatically, and build a personal medical expense record over time.

30 Sep 2025 • 9 min read

How to Detect, Track, and Identify Basketball Players with Computer Vision

Build a computer vision pipeline that detects, tracks, and identifies NBA players during a game. Using models like RF-DETR, SAM2, SigLIP, SmolVLM2, and ResNet, the system handles motion blur, occlusion, and uniform similarity to reliably map jersey numbers to player identities.

14 Jan 2025 • 15 min read

What is OCR Data Extraction?

Learn what OCR data extraction is and what models you can use to programmatically read the contents of images.

2 Jan 2025 • 8 min read

Extract Nutrition Data from Food Labels with Computer Vision

SUMMARY Traditional OCR tools struggle with the irregular layout, abbreviations, and variability of nutrition labels, but a vision-language model like GPT-4o can read and structure that data with context-aware accuracy. This tutorial shows how to build a food label extraction pipeline inside Roboflow Workflows by adding an

7 Aug 2024 • 8 min read

How to Extract Text From Images

SUMMARY Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts static image content in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats into machine-readable text, enabling automation of data entry, accessibility improvements, translation workflows, and document analysis. Roboflow's OCR API is one practical tool for this, offering a programmatic way to extract text at

10 Jul 2024 • 7 min read

The Guide to AI OCR

Learn what AI OCR is and how it is used in computer vision.

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.

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.

16 Mar 2024 • 7 min read

Best OCR Models for Text Recognition in Images

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

2 Feb 2024 • 4 min read

How to Use OCR in Manufacturing

In this guide, we discuss how OCR is used in manufacturing and how you can apply OCR in a manufacturing facility.

21 Nov 2023 • 7 min read

What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?

Learn what Optical Character Recognition is, what problems can be solved with OCR, and explore the approaches used by OCR algorithms to identify characters.

1 Nov 2023 • 8 min read

How to Detect Text in Images with OCR

This guide shows how to use the Roboflow OCR API as part of a two-stage detection system that identifies regions of interest and reads text in them.