Ollama OCR

Use it when

• I need to extract text or structured output from an image or PDF with a local Ollama vision model.
• I need to batch OCR a folder of images and collect per-file results and processing statistics.

What it solves

Not the fit when

• Guaranteed-correct extraction, the README notes that LLaVA can generate wrong output sometimes.
• OCR without Ollama and a pulled compatible vision model.
• OCR without a local Ollama installation
• guaranteed-correct vision extraction

Install

pip install ollama-ocr

Invoke

Pull an Ollama vision model, then call OCRProcessor(...).process_image(image_path="path/to/your/image.png", format_type="markdown").

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