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Local Vision-Language Models for OCR: Reading Invoices and Scans
Since 2025 a new group of open models has appeared that read document pages as images and output text, Markdown or JSON: olmOCR, PaddleOCR-VL, GLM-OCR,...
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openDesk Partner Programme: What It Means for SMEs
On 23 September 2026, the Centre for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration (ZenDiS) launched a partner programme for openDesk. The German federal government's office and...
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Shadow AI in companies: why a policy alone is not enough
In many companies, AI is in use before anyone has decided on it. Employees draft emails with a private chat account, have contracts summarised or...
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Local, GDPR-Compliant Speech Recognition: Whisper, Voxtral and Parakeet Compared
Speech recognition is one of the AI applications with the clearest benefit: dictation becomes text, meetings become minutes, phone calls become searchable notes. At the...
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Atlassian Rovo Alternative, Self-Hosted: Wiki and AI Search You Run Yourself
Atlassian Rovo combines search, chat and agents across Confluence, Jira and connected third-party applications. Rovo exists only in Atlassian Cloud. For organizations that run Confluence...
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Nextcloud 35 Upgrade: Path from 32, PHP and Database Requirements
Nextcloud 35 was released on 16 September 2026 as Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer. Six days earlier, 32.0.15 shipped as the last release of version 32....
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