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ExperimentFebruary 20, 202610 min read
Azure Document Intelligence vs. Vision LLMs: A Practical Comparison
When to use dedicated OCR services versus multimodal models. Tradeoffs across accuracy, cost, latency, and operational complexity.
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This post is part of the Learning Log archive. The architecture and key decisions from this piece are summarized in the header above.
The core theme is practical: production AI systems are defined by operational discipline — observability, fallback behavior, cost controls, and the interfaces between components — not isolated model quality.
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