Every Document Parsing & OCR comparison and buyer's guide for building AI agents — 3 pieces and counting. Each is a head-to-head or a “best X for Y” roundup with a sources-backed verdict.
DeepSeek's October paper shows vision tokens can carry roughly 10x the text of text tokens at ~97% fidelity — which quietly reframes long context as a compression problem, not a capacity one.
A new wave of vision-model OCR turns PDFs into clean Markdown. For RAG the leaderboard everyone quotes measures the wrong thing — and is published by the people who make the tools.
The fight you think you're having — open pipeline vs hosted LLM parser — ended last year. A 1.2B model on your own GPU now wins the part that actually matters.