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dots.ocr vs olmOCR
2 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
dots.ocrXiaohongshucurrent
olmOCRAllen Institute for AIcurrent| Specification | dots.ocr | olmOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Small, multilingual, layout-aware. | Fully open pipeline, weights and data. |
| OmniDocBench | ~93 | ~91 |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Handles | Layout, 100+ languages | Tables, markdown structure |
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Kind | Vision language model | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | Xiaohongshu ↗ | Allen Institute for AI ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
dots.ocr
- Layout and content in one pass
- Strong for its size
Best for multilingual layout parsing.
olmOCR
- Preserves reading order and markdown structure
- Training data published, which is rare
Best for reproducible research pipelines.