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Unlimited OCR alternatives

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

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DeepSeek-OCR

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

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
2
PaddleOCR-VL

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

TablesMathBounding boxesConfidenceMultilingual
3
GLM-OCR

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

TablesMathBounding boxesConfidenceMultilingual
2 credits / page
Unlimited OCR vs GLM-OCR
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MinerUComing soon

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
Unlimited OCR vs MinerU
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ChandraComing soon

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

TablesMathHandwritingFormsBounding boxesMultilingual
2 credits / page
Unlimited OCR vs Chandra
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dots.ocrComing soon

Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.

TablesMathBounding boxesMultilingual

Dashed tags are things Unlimited OCR does not support. Model IDs: deepseek/deepseek-ocr, paddle/paddleocr-vl, zai/glm-ocr, opendatalab/mineru, datalab/chandra, rednote/dots-ocr.

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