Vision-capable LLMs vs. OCR for long-document (including charts, images, tables, etc.) QA

I benchmarked vision-capable LLMs (the "just attach the PDF and let the model read it" pattern) against OCR-based pipelines on 30 long, image-heavy PDFs from MMLongBench-Doc (https://github.com/mayubo2333/MMLongBench-Doc).