Indra OCR
Datalab's OCR model that turns scans and PDFs into markdown on a plain CPU, first published Oct 10–13.
Official site: huggingface.co ↗
Is it actually free? Free
Free to download and run on your own computer. Code Apache-2.0. Weights: modified OpenRAIL-M, free for personal use, research, and organizations at or under $20M in revenue or funding; not for anyone offering a product that competes with Datalab's. No region limits.
Pricing
Code Apache-2.0. Weights: modified OpenRAIL-M, free for personal use, research, and organizations at or under $20M in revenue or funding; not for anyone offering a product that competes with Datalab's. No region limits.
Best for
Reading scanned or skewed pages into text on a laptop or server with no GPU.
Not great for
Companies above $20M in revenue or funding, or anyone building a product that competes with Datalab's.
Real plays that use Indra OCR
Alternatives
Docling
Open-source toolkit that converts PDFs, Office files and images into structured markdown or JSON for AI pipelines. v2.139.0 released Oct 14.
LightOnOCR-3
LightOn's Apache-2.0 OCR models (0.8B, 1B and 4B) that transcribe pages and can also return layout boxes and chart tables.