I 100% agree with this, I think you can even extend this to any AI, in the end, IMO, as the llm is more commoditized, the surface of which the value is delivered will matter more
gemini flash is notorious for hallucinating the output of the OCR, be careful with it. For straight forward, semi-structured, low page count (under 5) it should perform well, but the more the context window is stretched the more the output gets more unreliable
It's a weird timing because I just launched https://dochq.io - ai document extraction where you can define what you need to get out your documents in plain English, I legitimately thought that this was going to be such a niche product but hell, there has been a very rapid rise for AI-based OCR lately, an article/tweet even went viral 2 weeks ago I think? About using Gemini to do OCR, fun times.