The OCR leaderboards I’ve seen leave a lot to be desired.
With the rapid release of so many of these models, I wish there were a better way to know which ones are actually the best.
I also feel like most/all of these models don’t handle charts, other than to maybe include a link to a cropped image. It would be nice for the OCR model to also convert charts into markdown tables, but this is obviously challenging.
I’ve also heard very good things about these two in particular:
- LightOnOCR-2-1B: https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B
- PaddleOCR-VL-1.5: https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5
The OCR leaderboards I’ve seen leave a lot to be desired.
With the rapid release of so many of these models, I wish there were a better way to know which ones are actually the best.
I also feel like most/all of these models don’t handle charts, other than to maybe include a link to a cropped image. It would be nice for the OCR model to also convert charts into markdown tables, but this is obviously challenging.