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Docling vs dots.ocr vs Qwen3-VL
3 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
| Specification | Docling | dots.ocr | Qwen3-VL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Document conversion aimed squarely at RAG pipelines. | Small, multilingual, layout-aware. | A general vision model that happens to lead OCR benchmarks. |
| OmniDocBench | ~88 | ~93 | ~93 |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Handles | PDF, DOCX, PPTX, HTML | Layout, 100+ languages | Documents, charts, video |
| Licence | MIT | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Kind | Pipeline | Vision language model | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | IBM ↗ | Xiaohongshu ↗ | Alibaba ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Docling
- Outputs a structured document model, not just text
- Integrates with LlamaIndex and LangChain
Best for feeding a retrieval pipeline.
dots.ocr
- Layout and content in one pass
- Strong for its size
Best for multilingual layout parsing.
Qwen3-VL
- Not an OCR model, and beats most of them
- Sizes from 2B to 235B
Best for one model for vision and documents.