| 01 | JSTR Synthetic training data variant. Table 1 in arxiv:2404.05967. IC15=98.7%. Standard lowercase alphanumeric eval. | verified | 98.7 | 2024 | Paper ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 02 | TextBlockV2 (GPT-2) GPT-2 LM decoder variant. Table I in arxiv:2403.10047. IC15=97.7%. Standard lowercase alphanumeric eval. | verified | 97.7 | 2024 | Paper ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 03 | DTrOCR 105M From paper: DTrOCR: Decoder-only Transformer for Optical Character Recognition | verified | 93.5 | 2023 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 04 | CPPD From paper: Context Perception Parallel Decoder for Scene Text Recognition | verified | 91.7 | 2023 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 05 | CLIP4STR-L (DataComp-1B) From paper: CLIP4STR: A Simple Baseline for Scene Text Recognition with Pre-trained Vision-Language Model | verified | 91.4 | 2023 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 06 | MGP-STR From paper: Multi-Granularity Prediction for Scene Text Recognition | verified | 90.9 | 2022 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 07 | CLIP4STR-L From paper: An Empirical Study of Scaling Law for OCR | verified | 90.8 | 2023 | Paper ↗Code ↗Source ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 08 | CLIP4STR-B From paper: CLIP4STR: A Simple Baseline for Scene Text Recognition with Pre-trained Vision-Language Model | verified | 90.6 | 2023 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 09 | OTSNet Unified Observation-Thinking-Spelling network. Table 1 in arxiv:2511.08133. IC15=90.2%. Standard lowercase alphanumeric eval. | verified | 90.2 | 2025 | Paper ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 10 | IGTR-AR Auto-Regressive variant with real-world training data. Table X in arxiv:2401.17851. IC15=89.8%. Standard lowercase alphanumeric eval. | verified | 89.8 | 2024 | Paper ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 11 | SIGA_S From paper: Self-supervised Implicit Glyph Attention for Text Recognition | verified | 87.6 | 2022 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 12 | S-GTR From paper: Visual Semantics Allow for Textual Reasoning Better in Scene Text Recognition | verified | 87.3 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 13 | MATRN From paper: Multi-modal Text Recognition Networks: Interactive Enhancements between Visual and Semantic Features | verified | 86.6 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 14 | CDistNet (Ours) From paper: CDistNet: Perceiving Multi-Domain Character Distance for Robust Text Recognition | verified | 86.25 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 15 | DiffusionSTR From paper: DiffusionSTR: Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition | verified | 86 | 2023 | Paper ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 16 | DPAN From paper: Look Back Again: Dual Parallel Attention Network for Accurate and Robust Scene Text Recognition | verified | 85.5 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 17 | RCEED From paper: Representation and Correlation Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Framework for Scene Text Recognition | verified | 82.2 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 18 | CSTR From paper: Revisiting Classification Perspective on Scene Text Recognition | verified | 81.6 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 19 | Yet Another Text Recognizer From paper: Why You Should Try the Real Data for the Scene Text Recognition | verified | 80.2 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 20 | SEED From paper: SEED: Semantics Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Framework for Scene Text Recognition | verified | 80 | 2020 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 21 | TextScanner From paper: TextScanner: Reading Characters in Order for Robust Scene Text Recognition | verified | 79.4 | 2019 | Paper ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 22 | SATRN From paper: On Recognizing Texts of Arbitrary Shapes with 2D Self-Attention | verified | 79 | 2019 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 23 | SAFL From paper: SAFL: A Self-Attention Scene Text Recognizer with Focal Loss | verified | 77.5 | 2022 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 24 | ASTER From paper: ASTER: An Attentional Scene Text Recognizer with Flexible Rectification | verified | 76.1 | 2018 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 25 | DAN From paper: Decoupled Attention Network for Text Recognition | verified | 74.5 | 2019 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 26 | AON From paper: AON: Towards Arbitrarily-Oriented Text Recognition | verified | 73 | 2017 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 27 | ViTSTR From paper: Vision Transformer for Fast and Efficient Scene Text Recognition | verified | 72.6 | 2021 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 28 | Baek et al. From paper: What Is Wrong With Scene Text Recognition Model Comparisons? Dataset and Model Analysis | verified | 71.8 | 2019 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |
| 29 | SAR From paper: Show, Attend and Read: A Simple and Strong Baseline for Irregular Text Recognition | verified | 69.2 | 2018 | Paper ↗Code ↗ | Looks wrong? |