Has anyone had any success with using VLMs to translate PDFs, particularly of comics and magazines?

I've been trying the new miniCPM V4.5 model, and it's pretty good, but it's a bit too slow (~50tok/sec) to use on thousands of thousands of pages. It parses roughly one page every ten seconds, and basically just amounts to a really good OCR and doesn't seem to do table/markdown formatting that well and I can't seem to get it to caption images in the pages. It's still miles ahead of anything else I've tried since I can tell it to filter out useless information and the OCR literally never fails; I've seen it mess up OCR maybe once in hundreds of pages of documents.

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I worked at a mcdonalds for like 2 years after NEETing in uni and it was hell. They managed to scam me out of $3k purely out of spite as well (don't want to get into it, just going to say that the UK is extremely corrupt). Eventually decided "fuck this" and dumped a couple hundred on random shitcoins back in late 2024, made a lot of money that lasted quite a while but now I only have ~$6k in savings left.

I'm a dyspraxic, mixed race (kinda, only 'pure white' was my irish grandmother. Grandfather was the product of an african from america raping my great grandmother... father was the result of a pakistani raping my paternal grandmother who then committed suicide- 1960s yorkshire) with a speech impediment so everyone assumes I'm retarded (tested IQ of 130). As a result it is very hard for me to get a job.

I have decent grades in the angloid education camps (GCSE+A levels) and a degree in mathematics but you're kind of expected to do a masters which costs money and I never went to lectures so despite having a 2:1 it's barely a 2:1. They structure it such that if you only read the lecture notes they make damn well sure you don't pass (i.e. missing critical information, releasing lecture notes only days before the exam etc.) They do this to keep their metrics up. I simply could not do it I hate being crammed in a room full of people.

If you ever been in the job market for literally anything in the UK you would know looks and accent mean everything, kind of why nothing ever gets done.