TrOCR alternatives
Models that cover what TrOCR does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.
Open-source vision model from Ai2 that turns PDFs into clean, reading-order text.
Datalab's OCR model that keeps layout and handles forms, tables and handwriting.
Alibaba's open-weight vision language models (Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3-VL). Strong general OCR and grounding.
General vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
General vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.
Dashed tags are things TrOCR does not support. Model IDs: kraken/kraken, allenai/olmocr, datalab/chandra, qwen/qwen-vl, google/gemini-flash, openai/gpt.