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Technology & AISep 1, 2026

Closing Cost-Quality Gap in Document VLMs: Difficulty-Aware Data Curation and Quality-Adjusted Deployment Economics

Extracting structured fields from hundreds of millions of documents annually remains costly in regulated industries: bespoke OCR cascades cover only a fraction of workflows, privacy rules preclude external models, and existing open-sourc…

Extracting structured fields from hundreds of millions of documents annually remains costly in regulated industries: bespoke OCR cascades cover only a fraction of workflows, privacy rules preclude external models, and existing open-source VLMs that clear quality thresholds cost…

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