OCR Arena is a free playground for evaluating leading VLMs and OCR models side-by-side. Upload any document, compare accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard.
Hey Product Hunt 👋!
Kushal here, CEO of Extend. At Extend, we're building the world's best document processing platform. Today, we're excited to share OCR Arena with the community.
OCR Arena is a free playground for evaluating open source OCR models and foundation VLMs side-by-side. Upload any document, compare accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard.
OCR is going through a golden era. Every week, it feels like a new open source model comes out and sets a new record. But testing them is still painful.
Academic benchmarks only tell part of the story, but ultimately teams care most about how models perform on their specific documents and edge cases. Our goal with OCR Arena is to reduce the friction of testing new models and make OCR evaluation open, unbiased, and grounded in real-world performance.
We’ve initially launched with 10+ models, from Gemini 3 to DeepSeek-OCR to Qwen3-VL (powered by our friends over at Baseten!). If there's any model missing that you'd like to see, let us know in the comments and we'll do our best to get it live quickly. And as new models are released, we'll add them to the arena so they can compete for a spot on the leaderboard.
Grab a messy PDF, head over to OCR Arena, and see which models work best!
We'd love to hear any and all feedback on how we can make this better for the community. We'll be here all day to answer your questions.
Thanks for checking us out!
