OmniHandwritingOCR - Chinese Text: leaderboard

A subset of OmniHandwritingOCR (East China Normal University, 2026): 12,529 Chinese handwritten text images from CASIA-HWDB, filtered toward hard samples, and newly collected student writing. Systems transcribe each image to Markdown zero-shot, scored by 1-NED, one minus the normalized edit distance to the ground truth, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: 1-NED (%; one minus the normalized Levenshtein distance between the transcription and the ground truth, averaged over 12,529 Chinese handwritten text images (CASIA-HWDB and newly collected student writing); zero-shot Markdown transcription from one image with one task-neutral instruction for every system; task-specific normalization and tokenization, no semantic correction). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1InternVL3-78B79.91#738
2GPT-4o60.66#741
3Gemma 3 27B (IT)29.28#1289

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=omnihandwritingocr-chinese-text · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.