Kraken alternatives
Models that cover what Kraken does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
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.
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Google Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.
Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Dashed tags are things Kraken does not support. Model IDs: datalab/chandra, qwen/qwen-vl, azure/document-intelligence, google/document-ai, deepseek/deepseek-ocr, paddle/paddleocr-vl.