Sarvam Vision 2.1 launches with SOTA OCR scores and Indic handwriting recognition across 22 languages
itsOmSarraf_ · x · 2026-09-24
Indian AI firm Sarvam AI released Sarvam Vision 2.1, a document intelligence model adding structured extraction and Indic handwriting recognition across English and 22 Indian languages.
- State of the art on both olmOCR-Bench (87.3) and its own Indic benchmark (87.39)
- New capabilities for complex multi-page table parsing and key-value extraction from forms
- Inference stack optimizations enable cheaper pricing than at launch, with the API tuned for production workloads
- Hallucination and inconsistency issues addressed
Part of its sovereign models lineup launched in February 2026, built on the harness-with-VLM architecture (semantic layout parser plus pointer reading order).
Related event: Sarvam Vision 2.1 Tops OCR Benchmarks Across 22 Indian Languages(3 posts)→
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