Jina OCR alternatives
Models that cover what Jina OCR does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Small open-source OCR model from Z.ai with layout regions. MIT licensed.
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.
Dashed tags are things Jina OCR does not support. Model IDs: deepseek/deepseek-ocr, paddle/paddleocr-vl, zai/glm-ocr, baidu/unlimited-ocr, opendatalab/mineru, mistral/mistral-ocr.