GLM-OCR alternatives
Models that cover what GLM-OCR does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.
Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.
Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Document parser built for RAG pipelines, with several quality tiers.
Dashed tags are things GLM-OCR does not support. Model IDs: paddle/paddleocr-vl, deepseek/deepseek-ocr, baidu/unlimited-ocr, opendatalab/mineru, mistral/mistral-ocr, llamaindex/llamaparse.