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.
The world's first OCR leaderboard
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.
Hey Product Hunt 👋! Kushal here, CEO of Extend. At Extend, we're building the world's best document processing platform. Today, we're excited to share OCR Arena with the community. OCR Arena is a free playground for evaluating open source OCR models and foundation VLMs side-by-side. Upload any document, compare accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard. OCR is going through a golden era. Every week, it feels like a new open source model comes out and sets a new record. But t
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!
Feature request: it would be nice if there is a filter which only shows open source models, a filter to pick models greater than a size. This would ease the process for people working with open-source models.
Should include even models like docling, deepseekOCR etc
You should add Mistral, they have a good OCR
The scores reflect launch-period engagement. Historical data is preserved and doesn't change retroactively. The build date at the bottom shows when the index was last refreshed.
Check the similar products section on this page, or browse the category pages linked in the tags above. Each category page shows all products for a given year, sorted by engagement.
A measure of community engagement at launch. Higher means more people noticed and interacted with the product. It's a traction signal, not a quality rating.
Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.