I've been looking for a project that would have an easy free/extremely cheap way to do OCR/image recognition for generating ALT text automatically for social media. Some sort of embedded implementation that looks at an image and is either able to transcribe the text, or (preferably) transcribe the text AND do some brief image recognition.

I generally do this manually with Claude and it's able to do it lightning fast, but a small dev making a third party Bluesky/Mastodon/etc client doesn't have the resources to pay for an AI API.