AI4Bharat's IndicOCR: 0.8B model handles 9+ Indic scripts, rivals 4x larger ones
prajdabre · x · 2026-08-26
India's AI4Bharat, with BodhanAI, is set to release its first OCR model, IndicOCR, on Hugging Face and Bodhan on 05.09. The 0.8B-parameter model supports 9+ scripts, handles handwritten notes and degraded archives, and reportedly holds its own against models 4-5x its size. It completes the team's suite after Indic-Translate (text) and Indic-Transcribe (speech).
Related event: AI4Bharat to Open-Source 0.8B-Param IndicOCR Model(2 posts)→
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