Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

https://www.ocrarena.ai/battle

29•kbyatnal•3d ago

I built OCR Arena as a free playground for the community to compare leading foundation VLMs and open-source OCR models side-by-side.

Upload any doc, measure accuracy, and (optionally) vote for the models on a public leaderboard.

It currently has Gemini 3, dots.ocr, DeepSeek, GPT5, olmOCR 2, Qwen, and a few others. If there's any others you'd like included, let me know!

Comments

dang•1h ago

[under-the-rug stub]

[see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]

ylhert•3d ago

We've got like 10 LLM arenas but nothing for OCR yet, really hope this takes off!

profburial•3d ago

This is a killer idea!

athoscouto•3d ago

Nice! Would love to see Azure Document Intelligence on this

arathis•1h ago

Claude would be good!

ianhawes•37m ago

Please add Chandra by Datalab

fzysingularity•37m ago

FYI one of the models on the battle was pretty slow to load. Are these also being rated on latency or just quality?

zzleeper•24m ago

Love this! Would have liked to see something like textract for a pre-LLM benchmark (but of course that's expensive), and also a distinction between handwritten text and printed one.

But still, this is incredibly useful!

krashidov•19m ago

I would be curious to see how Sonnet does. Their models are pretty solid when it comes to PDFs

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Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

Comments

Pebble Watch software is now 100% open source

Claude Advanced Tool Use

Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

Claude Opus 4.5

Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of the old CRTs

Neopets.com Changed My Life (2019)

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls

Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

The Bitter Lesson of LLM Extensions

What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality

PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models

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Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened

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Corvus Robotics (YC S18): Hiring Head of Mfg/Ops, Next Door to YC Mountain View

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