Dr. DocBench - Formula Edit Distance: leaderboard

Metric: Normalized edit distance of display formulas (normalized LaTeX) against the expert transcription, times 100 (0-100), 4,514 expert-annotated difficult pages sampled by parser failure from long books in 52 subject domains; each page parsed with the model's own document-to-markdown prompt (specialized parsers through their official APIs); lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around December 2026. 12 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Qwen 3.5 Plus31
2Qwen 3.5 122B A10B32
3Qwen 3.5 Flash32
4Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)35
5Kimi K2.535
6GPT-5.536
7Claude Opus 4.637
8GPT-4o47
9Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL76

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=dr-docbench-formula-edit-distance · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-29.