AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to GLM-OCR
SOTA document parsing & OCR in just 0.9B parameters
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Vision models have been gaining popularity as a replacement for traditional OCR. Especially with Gemini 2.0 becoming cost competitive with the cloud platforms. We've been continuously evaluating different models since we released the Zerox package last year (https://github.com/getomni-ai/zerox). And we wanted to put some numbers behind it. So we’re open sourcing our internal OCR benchmark + evaluation datasets. Full writeup + data explorer here: https://getomni.ai/ocr-benchmark Github: https://github.com/getomni-ai/benchmark Huggingface:…
2025 · getomni.ai · its alternatives →
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Mistral OCR▲592Introducing the world’s best document understanding API
2025 · mistral.ai · its alternatives →
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Last week was big for open source LLMs. We got: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) - Gemma-3 (27b) - DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. - Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR. - Gemma-3…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥 - naptha/tesseract.js
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GLM-OCR▲3GLM-OCR: An online OCR focused on document structure
Feb 2026 · glm-ocr.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on an OCR pipeline specifically optimized for machine learning dataset preparation. It’s designed to process complex academic materials — including math formulas, tables, figures, and multilingual text — and output clean, structured formats like JSON and Markdown. Some features: • Multi-stage OCR combining DocLayout-YOLO, Google Vision, MathPix, and Gemini Pro Vision • Extracts and understands diagrams, tables, LaTeX-style math, and multilingual text (Japanese/Korean/English) • Highly tuned for ML training pipelines, including dataset generation and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-μLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized weights ({-2,-1,0,+1}) that runs on a Z80 with 64KB RAM. The entire thing: inference, weights, chat UI, it all fits in a 40KB .COM file that you can run in a CP/M emulator and hopefully even real hardware! It won't write your emails, but it can be trained to play a stripped down version of 20 Questions, and is sometimes able to maintain the illusion of having simple but terse conversations…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This started out as a weekend hack with gpt-4-mini, using the very basic strategy of "just ask the ai to ocr the document". But this turned out to be better performing than our current implementation of Unstructured/Textract. At pretty much the same cost. I've tested almost every variant of document OCR over the past year, especially trying things like table / chart extraction. I've found the rules based extraction has always been lacking. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. Using a vision model just make sense! In…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built OCR Arena as a free playground for the community to compare leading foundation VLMs and open-source OCR models side-by-side. Upload any doc, measure accuracy, and (optionally) vote for the models on a public leaderboard. It currently has Gemini 3, dots.ocr, DeepSeek, GPT5, olmOCR 2, Qwen, and a few others. If there's any others you'd like included, let me know!
Nov 2025 · ocrarena.ai · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-OCR▲350Advanced visual-text compression technology
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Almost exactly 1 year ago, I submitted something to HN about using Llama2 (which had just come out) to improve the output of Tesseract OCR by correcting obvious OCR errors [0]. That was exciting at the time because OpenAI's API calls were still quite expensive for GPT4, and the cost of running it on a book-length PDF would just be prohibitive. In contrast, you could run Llama2 locally on a machine with just a CPU, and it would be extremely slow, but "free" if you had a spare machine lying around. Well, it's amazing how things have changed since then. Not only have models gotten a lot better,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b open-weight language models
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Molmo 2▲98SOTA video understanding, pointing, and tracking VLM
Dec 2025 · allenai.org · its alternatives →
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📄 PDF/IMG ->.MD/JSON Document OCR API for PaddleOCR and GLMOCR. Self-hostable. - majcheradam/ocrbase
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax M2.5▲194The first open model to beat Sonnet made for productivity
Feb 2026 · minimax.io · its alternatives →
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Kaizen OCR▲31Fully offline OCR with 100+ languages support. Full Privacy
2025 · kaizen-apps.com · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM5-1B▲96A new SOTA for compact open models on the edge
May 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Devstral 2▲190SOTA open-source agentic coding models and CLI agent
Dec 2025 · mistral.ai · its alternatives →
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Invoice OCR▲111OCR Software & API for realtime data extraction from Invoice
2023 · mastersindia.co · its alternatives →
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