HOW WE BUILT A CUSTOM VISION LLM TO IMPROVE DOCUMENT PROCESSING AT GRAB

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Grab developed a lightweight, specialized Vision LLM from the ground up to address the limitations of traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. Traditional OCR systems struggle with the variety of document templates they have to process and often fall short in understanding South East Asian languages. Grab's model can effectively replace traditional OCR pipelines, opening new possibilities for document processing at scale. This post details how the company built its new model and also provides performance results.