Surya OCR is listed under AI OCR & Document Extraction, in the Research & Learning category on Flocci AI Tools. 650M-parameter OCR VLM covering 90+ languages. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at github.com.
Surya 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.
Surya OCR does 4 things the catalog singles out: 650m-parameter ocr vlm covering 90+ languages; layout analysis, reading order and table recognition; 83.3% on olmocr-bench; free playground at datalab.to; weights free for research, personal use and small startups.
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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