Current OCR Models landscape
Tencent Labs just released a new OCR model. It’s high-time we review models currently topping the charts
1. HunyuanOCR
2. PaddleOCR-VL
3. MinerU2.5
4. Qwen3-VL-235B-Instruct
5. MonkeyOCR-pro-3B
6. dots.ocr
7. Gemini-2.5-Pro
8. Deepseek-OCR
9. olmOCR
10. Mistral-OCR
11. GPT-4o
12. Dolphin BaiduOCR
13. PaddleOCR
14. Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
15. InternVL3.5-4B
16. MiniMonkey
17. Seed1.6-Vision
18. Marker-1.8.2
19. Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
20. Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
...counting
how do you test these models? by using huggingface spaces or do you try to run these models locally? and also do you have any specific dataset which you use to evaluate those models?