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Unlimited-OCR

Baidu's open OCR VLM that parses entire multi-page documents in one shot — 'unlimited' long-horizon parsing pushing DeepSeek-OCR further. MIT weights on HF; serve via transformers, vLLM or SGLang.

14,304 1,207 Python MITupdated 13 days ago
Curator's take

The current bar if you batch-parse long PDFs: one-shot multi-page parsing keeps cross-page structure (tables spanning pages, running sections) that page-by-page OCR pipelines lose, and first-party vLLM/SGLang recipes plus official Docker images make serving unusually painless for a fresh research model. NOT a lightweight dependency — it's a GPU-hungry VLM; for occasional single pages classic OCR or a hosted API is cheaper. Inference-only repo: no training code, and evaluation beyond the paper's claims is on you.

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README.md

Baidu Inc.


Unlimited OCR Works

Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.

Unlimited OCR overview

Release

  • [2026/07/03] 🤝 Thanks to the Baidu Cloud team for their support. Our model is now available on Baidu Cloud.
  • [2026/06/28] 🤝 Thanks to the vLLM community and Tianyu Guo for their support, our model now supports vLLM inference.
  • [2026/06/24] 🤝 Thanks to AK for creating a demo for us. It is now available at Hugging Face Spaces.
  • [2026/06/23] 📄 Our paper is now available on arXiv.
  • [2026/06/23] 🤝 Thanks to the ModelScope community for their support. Our model is now available at ModelScope.
  • [2026/06/22] 🚀 We present Unlimited-OCR, aiming to push Deepseek-OCR one step further.

Inference

Transformers

Inference using Huggingface transformers on NVIDIA GPUs. Requirements tested on python 3.12.3 + CUDA12.9:

torch==2.10.0
torchvision==0.25.0
transformers==4.57.1
Pillow==12.1.1
matplotlib==3.10.8
einops==0.8.2
addict==2.4.0
easydict==1.13
pymupdf==1.27.2.2
psutil==7.2.2
import os
import torch
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model_name = 'baidu/Unlimited-OCR'

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    use_safetensors=True,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
model = model.eval().cuda()

# ── Single image supports two configs: gundam or base ──
# gundam: base_size=1024, image_size=640, crop_mode=True
# base: base_size=1024, image_size=1024, crop_mode=False
model.infer(
    tokenizer,
    prompt='<image>document parsing.',
    image_file='your_image.jpg',
    output_path='your/output/dir',
    base_size=1024, image_size=640, crop_mode=True,
    max_length=32768,
    no_repeat_ngram_size=35, ngram_window=128,
    save_results=True,
)

# ── Multi page / PDF only uses base (image_size=1024) ──
model.infer_multi(
    tokenizer,
    prompt='<image>Multi page parsing.',
    image_files=['page1.png', 'page2.png', 'page3.png'],
    output_path='your/output/dir',
    image_size=1024,
    max_length=32768,
    no_repeat_ngram_size=35, ngram_window=1024,
    save_results=True,
)

# ── PDF (convert pages to images, then multi-page parsing) ──
import tempfile, fitz  # PyMuPDF

def pdf_to_images(pdf_path, dpi=300):
    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
    tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='pdf_ocr_')
    mat = fitz.Matrix(dpi / 72, dpi / 72)
    paths = []
    for i, page in enumerate(doc):
        out = os.path.join(tmp_dir, f'page_{i+1:04d}.png')
        page.get_pixmap(matrix=mat).save(out)

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