{"slug":"surya","name":"Surya","domain":null,"verdict":"As of 2026-07-18, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini collectively rank Surya #7 of 7 for ocr api for extracting text from scanned pdfs. Source: https://modelsagree.com/product/surya (modelsagree.com, CC BY 4.0).","best_rank":7,"categories":1,"entries":[{"slug":"best-ocr-api-for-extracting-text-from-scanned-pdfs","title":"Best OCR API for extracting text from scanned PDFs","rank":7,"of":7,"score":1,"appearances":1,"modelRanks":{"Claude":5},"reason":"The best open-source option in practice — modern deep-learning OCR with layout detection, reading order, and 90+ languages, and Marker turns scanned PDFs into clean markdown; self-hostable for privacy-sensitive documents (medical, legal) with accuracy that beats Tesseract decisively and approaches cloud APIs on clean scans.","reasons":[{"model":"Claude","reason":"The best open-source option in practice — modern deep-learning OCR with layout detection, reading order, and 90+ languages, and Marker turns scanned PDFs into clean markdown; self-hostable for privacy-sensitive documents (medical, legal) with accuracy that beats Tesseract decisively and approaches cloud APIs on clean scans."}],"fixes":[{"model":"Claude","fix":"You run the infrastructure — GPU needed for reasonable throughput, and the GPL/commercial licensing split plus lower accuracy on badly degraded scans make it a poor fit for teams wanting a zero-ops API."}],"updated":"2026-07-18","api":"https://modelsagree.com/api/v1/best/best-ocr-api-for-extracting-text-from-scanned-pdfs.json"}],"page":"https://modelsagree.com/product/surya","check":"https://modelsagree.com/check?q=Surya","updated":"2026-07-19T04:22:57.059Z","attribution":"modelsagree.com, CC BY 4.0"}