Introduction Pandas 3.0 made a game-changing decision: PyArrow-backed strings are now the default. Instead of storing strings as Python objects the old object dtype, pandas now uses Apache Arrow's columnar format with the new stringpyarrow dtype. ...

Benchmarking four open-source OCR engines on 5,578 handwritten medical prescriptions > Key Takeaways > - PP-OCRv5 5M parameters and GLM-OCR 0.9B parameters both achieve 20%+ exact match on handwritten prescriptions, a 10x jump over Tesseract and Ea...