
Make Handwritten Notes Searchable: Optimizing an OCR Pipeline with LanceDB
Learn how to build an OCR pipeline for handwritten medical notes using DSPy, GEPA, and LanceDB to manage images, labels, outputs, metrics, and retrieval.
Engineering
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Faster VLM Fine-Tuning With Materialized Model Features in LanceDB
How Lance format and LanceDB's Enterprise feature engineering platform make VLM fine-tuning faster by materializing expensive multimodal features once and training from those columns.
Engineering
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Lance × Hugging Face: A New Era of Sharing Multimodal Data on the Hub
Announcing native read support for Lance format on Hugging Face Hub. You can now distribute your large multimodal datasets as a single, searchable artifact (including blobs, embeddings and indexes) all in one place!
Engineering
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Keep Your Data Fresh with CocoIndex and LanceDB
Store a multimodal dataset of recipes in LanceDB, a multimodal lakehouse for AI, and keep it fresh with CocoIndex, a declarative data transformation framework for AI with incremental processing capabilities.
Engineering
Applications
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From BI to AI: A Modern Lakehouse Stack with Lance and Iceberg
A comparison of where Iceberg and Lance sit in the modern lakehouse stack. We highlight emerging architectures that are bridging the worlds of analytics and AI/ML workloads using these two formats, while being built on the same data foundation.
Engineering
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