DeepSeek-OCR is listed under AI OCR & Document Extraction, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. Vision-language OCR that compresses document context optically. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.
DeepSeek-OCR is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
DeepSeek-OCR needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on self-hosting.
DeepSeek-OCR does 4 things the catalog singles out: Vision-language ocr that compresses document context optically; document-to-markdown, layout detection and figure parsing; multiple resolution modes up to 1280x1280; mit license; deepseek-ocr2 released jan 2026.
dots.ocr (dots.mocr) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI OCR & Document Extraction sub-category and is free. LangExtract (Google), MinerU and olmOCR also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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