Tesseract alternatives
Models that cover what Tesseract does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Small open-source OCR model from Z.ai with layout regions. MIT licensed.
Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.
Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.
Dashed tags are things Tesseract does not support. Model IDs: deepseek/deepseek-ocr, jina/jina-ocr, paddle/paddleocr-vl, zai/glm-ocr, baidu/unlimited-ocr, opendatalab/mineru.