OCR Examples Gallery
Isaac FlathAugust 11, 2026A comparison of OCR tools and vision-language models on document pages: dense tables, forms, charts, maps, scanned equations, and diagrams. Every model sees the same page and (for VLMs) the same doc-type prompt.
The six models represent six ways someone might build a production document system. This is a curated comparison rather than an exhaustive model ranking:
| Approach | Representative | Why it is here | Similar models |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional OCR | PaddleOCR PP-OCRv5 | A direct text-recognition engine without a document or language-model layer | RapidOCR, Tesseract, EasyOCR |
| Managed document OCR | AWS Textract | The baseline for a team that wants to buy an API rather than operate OCR infrastructure | Google Document AI, Azure AI Document Intelligence, ABBYY Vantage |
| Document pipeline | MinerU | A packaged system that combines recognition, layout, and document reconstruction | Docling, Unstructured, Marker |
| OCR-specific vision model | Chandra OCR 2 | A vision model built specifically for document transcription | Surya OCR 2, Nanonets-OCR2-3B, DeepSeek-OCR |
| Open general VLM | Qwen3-VL 32B | A self-hostable general vision-language model prompted for extraction | Qwen3-VL 8B, InternVL, Molmo |
| Hosted general VLM | Gemini 3.5 Flash | A general multimodal model consumed as a managed API | OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Gemini Pro |
Models in the last column cover the same broad role. This gallery should help you pick a general class, then you need to evaluate models on your own pdfs to narrow it down further.
This is not meant to be an instructive guide, for that start with these 2 articles:
Hope you enjoy!
Government financial statement
Source: Financial Report of the United States Government, FY2024, page 68 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
1950 census questionnaire grid
Source: 1950 Census population questionnaire, page 1 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Coastal chart with coordinates
Source: NOAA United States Coast Pilot 2, page 240 (page PDF) · doc type: map
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
United States v. Banque Pictet & Cie SA — Deferred Prosecution Agreement
Source: United States v. Banque Pictet & Cie SA — Deferred Prosecution Agreement, page 12 (page PDF) · doc type: generic
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
US 11,335,153 B1 — Fully Autonomous System for Grading, Stamping and Encapsulating a Collectible Object
Source: US 11,335,153 B1 — Fully Autonomous System for Grading, Stamping and Encapsulating a Collectible Object, page 5 (page PDF) · doc type: diagram
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Alameda County — Official Retail Food Inspection Report
Source: Alameda County — Official Retail Food Inspection Report, page 1 (page PDF) · doc type: form
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Financial Accounts of the United States: Second Quarter 2025 (Z.1)
Source: Financial Accounts of the United States: Second Quarter 2025 (Z.1), page 84 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2024 Annual Report
Source: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. 2024 Annual Report, page 90 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, Fourth Quarter 2025
Source: FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, Fourth Quarter 2025, page 11 (page PDF) · doc type: chart
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Apple Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal 2024
Source: Apple Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal 2024, page 34 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Health Insurance Claim Form — CMS-1500 (02-12)
Source: Health Insurance Claim Form — CMS-1500 (02-12), page 1 (page PDF) · doc type: form
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
GOPRELTO (cocaine hydrochloride) Nasal Solution — Prescribing Information
Source: GOPRELTO (cocaine hydrochloride) Nasal Solution — Prescribing Information, page 3 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
RITALIN and RITALIN-SR (methylphenidate hydrochloride) — Prescribing Information
Source: RITALIN and RITALIN-SR (methylphenidate hydrochloride) — Prescribing Information, page 1 (page PDF) · doc type: generic
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Fictional discharge summary, 'John Doe' (GeriSage teaching example)
Source: Fictional discharge summary, 'John Doe' (GeriSage teaching example), page 1 (page PDF) · doc type: generic
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Cheney Brothers, 'Art in Fashion' typescript draft (Library of Congress)
Source: Cheney Brothers, 'Art in Fashion' typescript draft (Library of Congress), page 43 (page PDF) · doc type: generic
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Calvin Coolidge, speech before the American Classical Association, typescript (Library of Congress)
Source: Calvin Coolidge, speech before the American Classical Association, typescript (Library of Congress), page 21 (page PDF) · doc type: generic
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Attention Is All You Need (arXiv:1706.03762)
Source: Attention Is All You Need (arXiv:1706.03762), page 4 (page PDF) · doc type: equations
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
First Bus Glasgow — Service 4/4A Timetable
Source: First Bus Glasgow — Service 4/4A Timetable, page 1 (page PDF) · doc type: table
AWS Textract AnalyzeDocument (boto3 1.43.67); no task prompt.
Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (VFV) fact sheet
Source: Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (VFV) fact sheet, page 2 (page PDF) · doc type: table
chandra-ocr 0.2.0 (Chandra OCR 2, hf method); no task prompt.