OCR Arena: A Practical Arena for AI Document Processing Models Beyond official benchmarks, there should be a more intuitive and practical comparison of the actual performance of OCR and VLM. OCR Arena is an interactive playground designed specifically for testing real documents, helping developers to intuitively compare the performance of different models. It supports face-to-face comparison with more than 10 popular models such as Gemini 3, DeepSeek-OCR, and GPT-5. Platform Highlights: Side Comparison: Upload documents in real time to generate visual diffs, facilitating the checking of formatting errors, table integrity, and extraction accuracy. • Diverse support: Suitable for structured documents, tables, handwriting, and scanned images, covering common needs of intelligent agents in automated workflows. • Transparent Ranking: The public leaderboard provides unbiased model rankings based on user testing. • Practical value: Sumanth points out that this is more reliable than static benchmarks because real-world documentation is often “messy” and tests can reveal the robustness of the model in edge scenarios. Online comparison
