--- title: Best VLM posts of 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted VLM posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/vlm/best-of/2025 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/vlm/best-of/2025 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best VLM posts of 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted VLM posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of VLM — 2025 1. 1 [](/posts/olmocr-and-rolmocr-the-latest-in-open-source-ocr-hefsxbyix "olmOCR and RolmOCR: The Latest in Open-Source OCR") Article DigitalOcean Community · 1y olmOCR and RolmOCR: The Latest in Open-Source OCR DigitalOcean's post highlights olmOCR and RolmOCR, two innovative open-source OCR models developed by Allen AI and Reducto. olmOCR features Document Anchoring for improved text extraction, while RolmOCR builds on it with enhancements such as shorter prompts and robust off-angle handling. The integration of advanced Vision Language Models and fine-tuning techniques enable these models to offer scalable, cost-efficient solutions for document digitization. 57 2. 2 [](/posts/ocr-benchmark-cbtpndpof "OCR Benchmark") Article Hacker News · 2y OCR Benchmark The benchmark evaluates OCR accuracy and performance between traditional OCR providers and Vision Language Models (VLMs) using various real-world documents, including messy scans. It uses open-source datasets and methodologies, with results showing VLMs often matching or exceeding traditional OCR in certain scenarios like low-quality scans and handwritten documents. Traditional models may perform better on high-density text pages. The results include measurements of accuracy, cost, and latency. 19 1 3. 3 [](/posts/vision-language-models-better-faster-stronger--nwsn5gyhe "Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger)") Article Hugging Face · 1y Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger) This post reviews the developments in vision language models over the past year, highlighting new model architectures, specialized capabilities, and emerging paradigms. It covers trends such as any-to-any models, reasoning models, smaller yet capable models, and multimodal safety models, offering insights into how these innovations are shaping the future of AI. 12 [See all VLM archives](/tags/vlm/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/vlm/best-of/2025#page","url":"https://daily.dev/tags/vlm/best-of/2025","name":"Best VLM Posts of 2025","description":"The most upvoted VLM posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/vlm/best-of/2025#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/olmocr-and-rolmocr-the-latest-in-open-source-ocr-hefsxbyix","name":"olmOCR and RolmOCR: The Latest in Open-Source OCR"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ocr-benchmark-cbtpndpof","name":"OCR Benchmark"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vision-language-models-better-faster-stronger--nwsn5gyhe","name":"Vision Language Models (Better, Faster, Stronger)"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tags","item":"https://daily.dev/tags"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"VLM","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/vlm"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/vlm/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"2025"}]}]} ```