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Describe what you want to get done in your own words. We rank the best-fitting models, datasets, papers and open-source tools in the Silytics index, and say why each one is on the list.

Understood as: chatbot, answers, documents, chat, instruct, conversational, document, ocr, pdf · task: text generation

Best models

Ranked by fit to the task, adoption and reported results. Hosted models are paid APIs; the rest can be downloaded.

1
Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
matches chat, instruct, conversational · built for text generation · 7,357,696 downloads · apache-2.0 license
2
Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
matches chat, instruct, conversational · built for text generation · 6,276,110 downloads · apache-2.0 license
3
Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
matches chat, instruct, conversational · built for text generation · 6,018,399 downloads · apache-2.0 license
4
neuralcrew/neutrino-instruct
matches chat, instruct, conversational, pdf · built for text generation · 38,505 downloads · apache-2.0 license
5
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
matches chat, instruct, conversational · built for text generation · 4,299,162 downloads · other license
6
dphn/dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b
matches chat, instruct, conversational · built for text generation · 4,665,833 downloads · apache-2.0 license

Research to read

1
Heading Hierarchy Reconstruction for Complex and Long Documents with Level-Wise Multimodal Memory
matches documents, document
2
Similar Models, Broken Odds: Where Luce's Axiom Fails in Chatbot Arena
matches chatbot, chat
3
The Last Mile of Coding Agents for Long-Document Tasks: An Empirical Study on Clinical Trial Protocol Digitization
matches document
4
DDVR-Net: Degradation-Aware Decoupling and Visibility-Guided Restoration for Historical Document Recognition
matches document
5
VL-DocIR: A Benchmark for Vision-Based Long Document Information Retrieval
matches document
6
Visually Legible but Adversarial: Watermark-Constrained Attacks on End-to-End VLMs for Document Understanding
matches document

Open-source tools and code

1
awesome-document-understanding
matches documents, document, ocr, pdf · 1,543 GitHub stars
2
PaddleOCR
matches document, ocr, pdf · 91,121 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
3
paperless-ngx
matches document, ocr, pdf · 46,683 GitHub stars · GPL-3.0 license
4
opendataloader-pdf
matches document, ocr, pdf · 29,705 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
5
unstructured
matches document, ocr, pdf · 15,567 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
6
rasa
matches chatbot, chat, conversational · 21,350 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license

Datasets

1
gutoportelaa/dom-pi-pdfs-2025
matches document, ocr, pdf · 91,253 downloads · cc-by-4.0 license
2
HoneyDataV2/Honey-Data-V2
matches instruct, document, ocr · 74,232 downloads · other license
3
llamaindex/ParseBench
matches document, ocr, pdf · 27,018 downloads · apache-2.0 license
4
fka/prompts.chat
matches chatbot, chat, conversational · 28,319 downloads · cc0-1.0 license
5
AyoubChLin/Company-document-dataset-v2
matches document, ocr, pdf · 12,107 downloads · apache-2.0 license
6
AmazonScience/document-haystack
matches document, pdf · 97,262 downloads

Rankings are computed from public metadata and are a starting point, not a guarantee. Always test on your own data and check each license. Ask the community if you are unsure.