Chandra OCR 2 (datalab.to, 2026)
github.com/datalab-to/chandraState-of-the-art OCR model converting images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON with full layout preservation, excelling at complex tables, handwritten notes, mathematical equations, forms, and 90+ languages; tops external olmOCR benchmarks and ships a pip-installable `chandra-ocr` package with HuggingFace local and vLLM server inference modes (datalab.to, the team behind Marker, 12.5K+ stars, Apache 2.0 code / OpenRAIL-M model license)
Sourced from
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/datalab-to/chandra
- GitHub — github.com/datalab-to/chandra
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