Interfaze (YC P26) released interfaze-1-lite, described as the first general open-weight model for deterministic work covering OCR, speech-to-text, extraction and classification, and redistributed it under Apache 2.0 despite the original openRAIL-M license. A critic alleged the model was copied from Chandra OCR 2, renamed, and had its license changed, noting interfaze-1-lite scores 83.8 on olmocr versus Chandra OCR 2's 85.8. The model returns confidence scores and metadata such as bounding boxes on every run and is hosted at huggingface.co/interfaze-ai/interfaze-1-lite.
Looks like you copied Chandra OCR 2 into your repo, renamed it, changed the license, and made the output worse (your olmocr score is 83.8 vs our 85.8).
Introducing interfaze-1-lite, the first general open-weight model for deterministic work OCR, speech-to-text, extraction, classification and more It returns confidence scores and metadata like bounding boxes on every run
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