# Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale

> Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale Key Points - The FineBooks project, a collaboration between Hugging Face and EleutherAI, benchmarked 14 open-source OCR models on…

- **Source:** [The-decoder](https://the-decoder.com/old-ocr-text-cripples-language-model-training-and-finebooks-wants-to-fix-that-at-scale/?utm_source=gearopen.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_content=6a7a17b06824e7bf425b054d)
- **Published:** 2026-08-10
- **Category:** AI & Bots
- **Tags:** #ai
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