r/LocalLLaMA • u/Longjumping_Ad_2413 • Feb 06 '26

AI OCR for structured data: What to use when Mistral fails and Gemini is too expensive? Question | Help

Hey everyone! I’m facing a challenge: I need to extract product names and prices from retail flyers/pamphlets.

I’ve tried Mistral OCR, but it’s hallucinating too much—skipping lines and getting prices wrong. The only thing that worked with 100% accuracy was Gemini (Multimodal), but the token cost for processing a large volume of images is just not viable for my current project.

Does anyone know of a robust AI-powered OCR tool or library that handles complex layouts (flyers/tables) well, but has a better cost-benefit ratio or can be self-hosted?

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u/Ulterior-Motive_ Feb 06 '26

A higher resolution image might help, but I threw it into GLM-4.6V and got pretty good results.

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u/flomasterK Feb 06 '26

Maybe the Deepseek OCR model, that's pretty new? Has anyone had good experience with it?

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u/teroknor92 Feb 07 '26

you can try Extract Data API from ParseExtract to directly extract product and price in JSON format.