A new benchmark evaluates Vision-Language Models against traditional OCR systems for text recognition in video environments, using a dataset of 1,477 annotated frames from diverse sources. Advanced models like Claude-3, Gemini-1.5, and GPT-4o demonstrate superior performance in many scenarios, though challenges with hallucinations and occluded text persist.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06445

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