41 OCR models curated into four Hugging Face collections, from manga to handwriting
vanstriendaniel · x · 2026-09-07
Hugging Face user davanstrien curated 41 OCR models on the Hub into four collections with practical notes:
- Documents (17 items): OCR and document parsing for scanned pages, books, forms, tables and formulas
- Languages & scripts (10 items): whole-page readers and text-line recognisers for Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Devanagari and more
- Handwriting & archives (10 items): Swedish, Norwegian, German Kurrent, Tibetan and Hebrew-script manuscripts; many need cropped line input
- Text recognition & pipelines: line/region recognisers and full OCR pipelines
Spans VLMs, dedicated recognisers and complete pipelines — a useful selection guide by use case.
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