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Nanonets-OCR alternatives

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

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ChandraComing soon

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

TablesMathHandwritingFormsBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
Nanonets-OCR vs Chandra
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DeepSeek-OCR

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

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
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Jina OCR

Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.

TablesMathMultilingual
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PaddleOCR-VL

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

TablesMathBounding boxesConfidenceMultilingual
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GLM-OCR

Small open-source OCR model from Z.ai with layout regions. MIT licensed.

TablesMathBounding boxesConfidenceMultilingual
2 credits / page
Nanonets-OCR vs GLM-OCR
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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

Dashed tags are things Nanonets-OCR does not support. Model IDs: datalab/chandra, deepseek/deepseek-ocr, jina/jina-ocr, paddle/paddleocr-vl, zai/glm-ocr, baidu/unlimited-ocr.

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