Chandra alternatives
Models that cover what Chandra does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
Alibaba's open-weight vision language models (Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3-VL). Strong general OCR and grounding.
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Google Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.
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.
Dashed tags are things Chandra does not support. Model IDs: qwen/qwen-vl, azure/document-intelligence, google/document-ai, deepseek/deepseek-ocr, paddle/paddleocr-vl, zai/glm-ocr.