Hitting a wall parsing 1,000+ complex scanned PDFs & Excel tables to JSON (CPU-only). AI newbie looking for local parser recommendations (GLM-OCR, FireRed OCR, etc.)

Hey everyone, I’m pretty new to the AI engineering side of things, but I've recently been tasked with a massive digitization project at work across 6 food manufacturing plants. I’ve hit a serious wall and would love some advice from the veterans here. We’re trying to move away from paper logs and di