DeepSeek-OCR Compresses Text Into Images. That's Backwards—and Brilliant.
Photo by Jan Antonin Kolar on Unsplash Everyone Knows OCR Extracts Text From Images If you’ve used OCR technology, you know the basic flow: scan document, extract text, done. Take an image with text, turn it into actual text characters you can search, edit, and process. That’s what OCR has meant for decades. DeepSeek just flipped this completely backwards. Their new OCR model—released October 20, 2025—takes text and compresses it into images. Not as a novelty. As the primary function. ...