OCR Arena
The world's first OCR leaderboard
126 followers
The world's first OCR leaderboard
126 followers
OCR Arena is a free playground for evaluating leading VLMs and OCR models side-by-side. Upload any document, compare accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard.
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Launch Team / Built With
Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second
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Hi everyone 🙂
I'm Ishaan, the dev who built this!
We put a lot of time and care into building OCR Arena and I really hope you all love it. Please let me know if you have any feature requests, new models you want to see, or anything else you think that might make this a fun and useful product to use!
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Very fun little arena! I have been using VLMs for OCR tasks in production, so I am drawn to it and want to see which model excels at the task of receipt scanning, which is the main feature of an app @ReceiptGenie (launching on Nov 23) I have been working on.
It is surprising to find that the model I am using is ranking quite low in the Arena, and my real results (after almost 5k scans) were basically on par with the best performant model in the Arena. I feel like a solid prompt can go a long way for specific tasks.
I am very surprised by the performance of the Qwen3-VL-8B model. Definitely packs a good punch for the size. Will definitely experiment a bit more on this and see how much I can steer the model with prompting.
Would be good if we can see a few more OSS models like MinerU etc, and being able to test the models side by side with the same prompt would be very cool.
Useful tool for teams comparing models. I’m curious how well OCR Arena handles very noisy or low-resolution documents, does the leaderboard shift much when you test harsher real-world cases?
You should add Mistral, they have a good OCR
Should include even models like docling, deepseekOCR etc