PureDocBench - Real Degraded - Text Edit Distance: leaderboard
Metric: Text normalized edit distance (%): edit distance between the predicted and reference text divided by the longer length, times 100, on the real degraded track (the same pages through four physical acquisition chains: phone photos of prints and of photocopies, screen photographs, and screenshots with social-media compression) of 1,475 source pages in 10 domains and 66 subcategories, rendered from LLM-written HTML/CSS with source-linked annotations for text, formulas, tables and reading order; lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 58 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen 3.8 27B | 27.4 |
| 2 | Qwen 3.5 122B A10B | 28.1 |
| 3 | Qwen 3.5 27B | 28.3 |
| 4 | Qwen 3.5 397B A17B | 28.7 |
| 5 | Claude Opus 5 | 29.4 |
| 6 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 30 |
| 7 | Qwen 3.5 35B A3B | 31 |
| 8 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | 31 |
| 9 | GLM-5.3 Flash | 31.1 |
| 10 | Qwen 3.5 9B | 33.2 |
| 11 | Kimi K2.6 (Non-reasoning) | 33.5 |
| 12 | Qwen 3.5 4B | 38 |
| 13 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 42.4 |
| 14 | Qwen 3.6 35B A3B | 42.6 |
| 15 | Qwen 3.5 2B | 44 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=puredocbench-real-degraded-text-edit-distance · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.