olmOCR alternatives
Models that cover what olmOCR 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.
General vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
General vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.
General vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.
Specialist for math, science papers and handwritten formulas. Outputs LaTeX.
Dashed tags are things olmOCR does not support. Model IDs: datalab/chandra, qwen/qwen-vl, google/gemini-flash, openai/gpt, anthropic/claude, mathpix/convert.