Chandra-OCR-2
from
Datalab
is a state-of-the-art OCR model that outputs structured markdown, HTML, or JSON while preserving precise layout information from images and PDFs across 90+ languages. It achieves SOTA benchmarks with 85.9% on olmocr and 77.8% multilingual score (+12% over Chandra 1), delivering major gains in math equation parsing, complex table reconstruction (including merged cells), handwriting recognition, form elements like checkboxes, and wide-document layouts alongside vastly improved image captioning and diagram extraction. Available via free playground, hosted API for production speed/accuracy, or local deployment through HuggingFace Transformers/vLLM, it excels at transforming challenging real-world documents—financial filings, research papers, historical scans, multilingual forms—into semantically rich structured data for downstream AI pipelines and automation workflows.
(sorted by size, not necessarily quality. IQ-quants are often preferable over similar sized non-IQ quants)
Here is a handy graph by ikawrakow comparing some lower-quality quant
types (lower is better):