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GLM-OCR alternatives

Models that cover what GLM-OCR does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.

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PaddleOCR-VL

Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

TablesMathBounding boxesConfidenceMultilingual
2 credits / page
GLM-OCR vs PaddleOCR-VL
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DeepSeek-OCR

Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
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Unlimited OCRComing soon

Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
GLM-OCR vs Unlimited OCR
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MinerUComing soon

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
GLM-OCR vs MinerU
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ChandraComing soon

Datalab's OCR model that keeps layout and handles forms, tables and handwriting.

TablesMathHandwritingFormsBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
GLM-OCR vs Chandra
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dots.ocrComing soon

Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
GLM-OCR vs dots.ocr

Dashed tags are things GLM-OCR does not support. Model IDs: paddle/paddleocr-vl, deepseek/deepseek-ocr, baidu/unlimited-ocr, opendatalab/mineru, datalab/chandra, rednote/dots-ocr.

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