Not OP but one example is that recent VL models are more than sufficient for analyzing your local photo albums/images for creating metadata / descriptions / captions to help better organize your library.

For me, receipt scanning and tagging documents and parts of speech in my personal notes. It's a lot of manual labour and I'd like to automate it if possible.

Adding to the Q: Any good small open-source model with a high correctness of reading/extracting Tables and/of PDFs with more uncommon layouts.

I use local models for auto complete in simple coding tasks, cli auto complete, formatter, grammarly replacement, translation (it/de/fr -> en), ocr, simple web research, dataset tagging, file sorting, email sorting, validating configs or creating boilerplates of well known tools and much more basically anything that I would have used the old mini models of OpenAI for.

I would personally be much more interested in using LLMs if I didn’t need to depend on an internet connection and spending money on tokens.