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OLMOCR-BENCH · OLMOCR-BENCH · CHANDRA 2.5

olmOCR-bench: Chandra 2.5 scores 86.9% on olmOCR-bench · Chandra 2.5.

olmOCR-bench unit-tests OCR output on arXiv papers, old scans, tables, multi-column pages and tiny text. Chandra 2.5 is the model behind the Datalab API. We report each model with its own postprocessing, because benchmark-specific postprocessing flatters scores.

SCOREBOARD · olmOCR-bench · Chandra 2.5

Ranked scoreboard.

Models ranked highest-to-lowest. Datalab variants in accent; competitors and prior generations in muted ink.

Rank Model Score vs scale
01 Chandra 2.5 Datalab API 86.9%
02 Chandra OCR 2 open source 85.8%
03 LightOnOCR-3-4B our reproduction 85.4%
Dataset · olmOCR-bench · Chandra 2.5 Last run · 2026-10-14

+1.1 vs Chandra OCR 2

olmocr 0.4.27 · olmOCR-bench revision 54a96a6 · headers and footers left out

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olmOCR-bench unit-tests OCR output against known-correct elements in a public dataset. Model versions pinned per run; anyone can reproduce from the olmOCR-bench HuggingFace dataset.

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