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franken_ocr

Pure-Rust, CPU-only OCR engine with a five-model zoo and no Python, CUDA, ML framework, or GPU required at inference.

Open-source Rust library and single-binary CLI (`focr`) for local, CPU-only OCR and document/image extraction using hand-ported vision-language model runtimes, with support for documents, structured OCR, image description/VQA, chart data, and sheet-music MusicXML output.

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