LlamaIndex launches ParseBench-2 benchmark and OCRia-1.5 parsing models
The severity-weighted metric design is the notable shift: it fixes the known weaknesses of both deterministic scores and LLM judges, making cross-vendor OCR comparisons more trustworthy. Engineering teams building RAG or document pipelines should re-run their parsing stack against ParseBench-2 before procurement decisions. OCRia-1.5 is available through LlamaParse in the cloud, giving developers a direct baseline to test against incumbent OCR providers on tables, forms and complex layouts.
