Run OCR Models Locally with llama.cpp—No Cloud Required

Ever needed to extract text from images but didn't want to send them to some company's servers? There's now a collection of OCR (optical character recognition) models optimized to run directly on your computer using llama.cpp, the same lightweight framework that powers offline AI. This means you can process documents, screenshots, and photos privately, without API costs or internet dependency. The GGML organization has curated a bunch of these models—think of it as the open-source answer to Google's Cloud Vision or Microsoft's Computer Vision API, except it runs on your laptop. Perfect if you're building something that needs to read text from images at scale or just want to keep your data off the cloud.