Indra: A 1M-Parameter Open OCR Model 15x Faster Than Tesseract

Datalab released Indra, an open-source OCR model with only 1M parameters that runs 15x faster than Tesseract on CPU while being more accurate, processing 49 pages per second and trending on Hugging Face.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-17 · 3 related posts

Full story(3 episodes)→

• Episode 1: Datalab Open-Sources Indra, a 1M-Parameter OCR Model Hitting 49 Pages/sec on CPU(2026-10-14, 6 posts)
• Episode 2: Indra: A 1M-Parameter Open OCR Model 15x Faster Than Tesseract(2026-10-16, 3 posts)
• Episode 3: Datalab Releases Indra OCR 1.1: 1M-Parameter Model Runs 44 Pages/sec on CPU(2026-10-20, 4 posts)

• Open-source OCR model indra-ocr trends on Hugging Face with CPU support — datalab-to · 2026-10-16
• Indra OCR: 1M-parameter open model hits 49 pages/sec on CPU, 11-17x faster than Tesseract — VikParuchuri · 2026-10-17
• Indra: a 1M-parameter OCR model 15x faster than Tesseract on CPU — VictorSanh · 2026-10-17