OCR: Languages & scripts
OCR for particular languages and writing systems, from whole-page readers to dedicated text-line recognisers.
Image-Text-to-Text • 2B • Updated • 192k • • 28Note Thai/English page parsing, forms and handwriting; use the required OCR prompt and Typhoon tooling. Usage: https://github.com/scb-10x/typhoon-ocr
sbintuitions/sarashina2.2-ocr
Image-to-Text • 4B • Updated • 1.55k • 33Note Japanese/English pages to Markdown, including vertical Japanese text, HTML tables and LaTeX formulas.
5CD-AI/Vintern-1B-v3_5
Image-Text-to-Text • 0.9B • Updated • 7.09k • 125Note Vietnamese forms, invoices and text-rich images; use explicit transcription prompts with this broader document VLM.
NAMAA-Space/Qari-OCR-0.4.0-VL-4B-Instruct
Image-to-Text • Updated • 681 • 7Note Adapter for printed Arabic Islamic books; requires its Qwen3-VL base model, with less established support for handwriting and modern fonts.
NCSOFT/VARCO-VISION-2.0-1.7B-OCR
Image-Text-to-Text • 2B • Updated • 1.13k • 29Note Korean/English recognition with character bounding boxes; non-commercial licence.
wayu-ai/wayu-paxa-ocr-zero
Image-Text-to-Text • 0.9B • Updated • 35 • 1Note Thai/English region recognition; whole pages need layout detection, and this research release has no maintenance commitment. Usage: https://github.com/wayu-research/wayu-ocr-inference
PaddlePaddle/arabic_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec
Image-to-Text • Updated • 1.17k • 7Note Arabic-script line recognition in PaddleOCR; supply text crops or add detection for full pages, and check coverage on your fonts.
PaddlePaddle/devanagari_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec
Image-to-Text • Updated • 1.47kNote Devanagari line recognition with Hindi examples; crop lines or use PaddleOCR detection, and check your language’s coverage.
PaddlePaddle/korean_PP-OCRv5_mobile_rec
Image-to-Text • Updated • 5.38k • 17Note Dedicated Korean line recognition with PaddleOCR examples; use text crops or the full detection pipeline.
kha-white/manga-ocr-base
Image-to-Text • Updated • 889k • 180Note Japanese manga text, including vertical writing and furigana; supply one text region, since blank images can produce invented text. Usage: https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr