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Chandra OCR

Converts images and PDFs to HTML, Markdown or JSON with layout

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What Chandra OCR does

  • Converts images and PDFs to HTML, Markdown or JSON with layout
  • Handles tables, forms and handwriting in 90+ languages
  • 85.8% on olmOCR benchmark (Chandra 2, Mar 2026)
  • Free playground at datalab.to; open weights under modified OpenRAIL-M

Chandra OCR — straight answers

What is Chandra OCR?

Chandra OCR is listed under AI OCR & Document Extraction, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Converts images and PDFs to HTML, Markdown or JSON with layout. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at github.com.

Is Chandra OCR free?

Chandra OCR is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 404 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.

What can Chandra OCR do?

Chandra OCR does 4 things the catalog singles out: Converts images and pdfs to html, markdown or json with layout; handles tables, forms and handwriting in 90+ languages; 85.8% on olmocr benchmark (chandra 2, mar 2026); free playground at datalab.to; open weights under modified openrail-m.

What is the best free alternative to Chandra OCR?

DeepSeek-OCR is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI OCR & Document Extraction sub-category and is free. Docling, Dolphin (ByteDance) and dots.ocr (dots.mocr) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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