DeepSeek OCR
Overview
Highlights
- High-accuracy extraction from complex layouts and handwriting
- Seamless API integration for automated document pipelines
- Permissive MIT license for flexible commercial deployment
- Optimized for structured data recovery and visual parsing
Usage
# Install Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch
# Load model with transformers
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR")
Hugging Face Download
We recommend downloading the model via the Hugging Face CLI or Hub SDK.
Guidance:Before downloading, install huggingface_hub with:
pip install -U huggingface_hub
CLI Download
Download the full repository
huggingface-cli download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)
huggingface-cli download deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR config.json --local-dir ./dir
See the official docs for more CLI options
SDK Download
# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR')
Git Download
Make sure git-lfs is installed first
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
Model files are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub — download directly via HF CLI / SDK / Git, not through this site.
PyTorch / Transformers Usage
Install Transformers
pip install -U transformers torch
Load the model and run inference
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR')
Model Download
We recommend downloading the model via the ModelScope CLI or SDK.
Guidance:Before downloading, install ModelScope with:
pip install modelscope
CLI Download
Download the full repository
modelscope download --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)
modelscope download --model deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR README.md --local_dir ./dir
See the docs for more CLI options
SDK Download
# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR')
Git Download
Make sure git-lfs is installed first
git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR.git
To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR.git
ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件;无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。
Notebook Quickstart
Install the ModelScope library
pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html
Load the model and run inference
from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks
p = pipeline('text-generation', 'deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR')
Full Documentation
---
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
language:
- multilingual
tags:
- deepseek
- vision-language
- ocr
- custom_code
license: mit
library_name: transformers
---
<div align="center">
<img src="https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2/blob/main/figures/logo.svg?raw=true" width="60%" alt="DeepSeek AI" />
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<a href="https://www.deepseek.com/" target="_blank">
<img alt="Homepage" src="https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2/blob/main/figures/badge.svg?raw=true" />
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<p align="center">
<a href="https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR"><b>🌟 Github</b></a> |
<a href="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR"><b>📥 Model Download</b></a> |
<a href="https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR/blob/main/DeepSeek_OCR_paper.pdf"><b>📄 Paper Link</b></a> |
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18234"><b>📄 Arxiv Paper Link</b></a> |
</p>
<h2>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.18234">DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression</a>
</p>
</h2>
<p align="center">
<img src="assets/fig1.png" style="width: 1000px" align=center>
</p>
<p align="center">
<a href="https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.18234">Explore the boundaries of visual-text compression.</a>
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Usage
Inference using Huggingface transformers on NVIDIA GPUs. Requirements tested on python 3.12.9 + CUDA11.8:torch==2.6.0
transformers==4.46.3
tokenizers==0.20.3
einops
addict
easydict
pip install flash-attn==2.7.3 --no-build-isolationfrom transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
import torch
import os
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = '0'
model_name = 'deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR'
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, _attn_implementation='flash_attention_2', trust_remote_code=True, use_safetensors=True)
model = model.eval().cuda().to(torch.bfloat16)
prompt = "<image>\nFree OCR. "
prompt = "<image>\n<|grounding|>Convert the document to markdown. "
image_file = 'your_image.jpg'
output_path = 'your/output/dir'
infer(self, tokenizer, prompt='', image_file='', output_path = ' ', base_size = 1024, image_size = 640, crop_mode = True, test_compress = False, save_results = False):
Tiny: base_size = 512, image_size = 512, crop_mode = False
Small: base_size = 640, image_size = 640, crop_mode = False
Base: base_size = 1024, image_size = 1024, crop_mode = False
Large: base_size = 1280, image_size = 1280, crop_mode = False
Gundam: base_size = 1024, image_size = 640, crop_mode = True
res = model.infer(tokenizer, prompt=prompt, image_file=image_file, output_path = output_path, base_size = 1024, image_size = 640, crop_mode=True, save_results = True, test_compress = True)
vLLM
Refer to 🌟GitHub for guidance on model inference acceleration and PDF processing, etc.<!-- -->[2025/10/23] 🚀🚀🚀 DeepSeek-OCR is now officially supported in upstream vLLM.
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
Until v0.11.1 release, you need to install vLLM from nightly build
uv pip install -U vllm --pre --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightlyfrom vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from vllm.model_executor.models.deepseek_ocr import NGramPerReqLogitsProcessor
from PIL import Image
Create model instance
llm = LLM(
model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR",
enable_prefix_caching=False,
mm_processor_cache_gb=0,
logits_processors=[NGramPerReqLogitsProcessor]
)
Prepare batched input with your image file
image_1 = Image.open("path/to/your/image_1.png").convert("RGB")
image_2 = Image.open("path/to/your/image_2.png").convert("RGB")
prompt = "<image>\nFree OCR."
model_input = [
{
"prompt": prompt,
"multi_modal_data": {"image": image_1}
},
{
"prompt": prompt,
"multi_modal_data": {"image": image_2}
}
]
sampling_param = SamplingParams(
temperature=0.0,
max_tokens=8192,
# ngram logit processor args
extra_args=dict(
ngram_size=30,
window_size=90,
whitelist_token_ids={128821, 128822}, # whitelist: <td>, </td>
),
skip_special_tokens=False,
)
Generate output
model_outputs = llm.generate(model_input, sampling_param)
Print output
for output in model_outputs:
print(output.outputs[0].text)Visualizations
<table> <tr> <td><img src="assets/show1.jpg" style="width: 500px"></td> <td><img src="assets/show2.jpg" style="width: 500px"></td> </tr> <tr> <td><img src="assets/show3.jpg" style="width: 500px"></td> <td><img src="assets/show4.jpg" style="width: 500px"></td> </tr> </table>Acknowledgement
We would like to thank Vary, GOT-OCR2.0, MinerU, PaddleOCR, OneChart, Slow Perception for their valuable models and ideas.
We also appreciate the benchmarks: Fox, OminiDocBench.