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Test against the same benchmarks that state-of-the-art models use. 26 standard tests across documents, handwriting, video, scene text, and multilingual tasks.

Compare your results to current leaders - 8 benchmarks with full leaderboards
Find the right test for your use case - categorized by document type and language
See which models perform best on multiple tests - cross-benchmark rankings below

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26
Total Benchmarks
8
With Leaderboard Data
258
Total Data Points
5
Categories

Top Models Across Multiple Benchmarks

Models ranked by number of top-3 finishes across different benchmarks.

gemini-25-pro

3
top-3 finishes
#8 omnidocbench #4 ocrbench-v2 #2 churro-ds #1 mme-videoocr #2 thaiocrbench

gpt-4o

1
top-3 finishes
#5 ocrbench-v2 #4 cc-ocr #4 mme-videoocr #3 kitab-bench

paddleocr-vl

1
top-3 finishes
#1 omnidocbench #4 olmocr-bench

mineru-2.5

1
top-3 finishes
#3 omnidocbench #11 olmocr-bench

gemini-15-pro

1
top-3 finishes
#1 cc-ocr #5 mme-videoocr

qwen25-vl-72b

1
top-3 finishes
#2 mme-videoocr #5 thaiocrbench

qwen25-vl-32b

1
top-3 finishes
#6 mme-videoocr #3 thaiocrbench

dots-ocr-3b

0
top-3 finishes
#7 omnidocbench #5 olmocr-bench

mistral-ocr-3

0
top-3 finishes
#10 omnidocbench #6 olmocr-bench

deepseek-ocr

0
top-3 finishes
#9 olmocr-bench #10 olmocr-bench

Document (9)

Multilingual (6)

KRETA

No data yet

Seoul National University

Best Model
Gemini-2.0-flash

KOCRBench

No data yet

KL-Net

Best Model
Gemini 2.5 Flash

MOTBench

No data yet

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Best Model
Gemini-2.0-Flash

JaPOC

No data yet

Fast Accounting Co., Ltd.

Best Model
T5 (Retrieva)

Scene Text (5)

DROBS

No data yet

NVIDIA

Best Model
ECLAIR-MIP

CORU

No data yet

University of Innsbruck

Best Model
GPT-4o

Union14M

No data yet

South China University of Technology

Best Model
MAERec-B

TextZoom

No data yet

Nanjing University

Best Model
TSRN

ICDAR 2015

No data yet

Megvii Inc.

Best Model
Stradvision

Video (3)

VTPBench

No data yet

South China University of Technology

Best Model
TextCtrl

VideoDB OCR

No data yet

VideoDB

Best Model
GPT-4o

Handwriting (3)

UIT-HWDB

No data yet

University of Information Technology

Best Model
TransformerOCR

Chinese Text Recognition

No data yet

Fudan University

Best Model
TransOCR

Digital Peter

No data yet

Moscow Institute of Physics

Best Model
GRCNN

About This Directory

This directory tracks 26 OCR benchmarks. Benchmarks with green badges have full leaderboard data - click them to see all models and their scores.

Data sourced from AlphaXiv. Last updated: 2025-12-19.