MiniCPM-OCR Jev (2B) is an OCR quality-assessment model for text, formula, and table regions. Given a region image and a candidate OCR result, it returns a score from 0 to 1 — higher means the candidate is more likely correct.
MiniCPM-OCR Jev
MiniCPM-OCR Jev is a 2B OCR quality-assessment model for text, formula, and table regions. Given a region image and a candidate OCR result, it returns a score from 0 to 1 — higher means the candidate is more likely correct. Use it to auto-accept reliable regions, route the rest to human review, or pick the best result among several OCR models.
- 🛡️ A small model that beats larger ones: at only 2B parameters, decision AUROC (×100) on JevOCRBench is 93.6, above JEV-35B-A3B (90.1) and close to Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (93.8).
- 🧩 Stable generalization: on parses from MiniCPM-OCR 1.0, GLM-OCR, PaddleOCR-VL-1.6, and Xiaomi-OCR-0, AUROC (×100) stays in 91.9–93.4.
Architecture
Trained from Qwen3.5-2B. The vision encoder and language backbone are retained, and the
language-model output head lm_head is replaced with a binary classification head that
learns whether a candidate is correct.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Assessment unit | One text / formula / table region plus its candidate OCR result |
| Original region image | The crop from the document |
| Candidate content | OCR text and an image rendered from that text |
| Output | Score in 0–1; higher = more likely correct |
When calling the cloud API, the Docker image, or the SDK service with a built-in renderer,
supply the original region image, the candidate text, and the region category
(text / formula / table) — the service renders internally. A service without a renderer
requires you to supply the rendered image as well.
Evaluation Results
The table below reports overall and per-category AUROC (×100) on JevOCRBench. Higher values indicate better discrimination between correct and incorrect parsing results.
Discrimination across OCR models
| OCR model | MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 | GLM-OCR | PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 | Xiaomi-OCR-0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUROC (×100) | 92.7 | 91.9 | 93.4 | 93.1 |
Same 200 samples drawn at random from JevOCRBench; four models parse them independently, every candidate is hand-labelled, then scored by MiniCPM-OCR Jev. Maximum gap 1.5 points.
Automatic screening to reduce human review
Score the parsed result for each region and choose a threshold using samples from your application. Results above the threshold proceed automatically; the rest go to human review. A higher threshold typically reduces the number of results that pass automatically, so monitor both the accuracy of automatically accepted results and the volume of human review.
Selecting across models to improve parsing quality
Use the same layout segmentation to have several OCR models parse each region. MiniCPM-OCR Jev scores the candidates for the same region, selects the highest-scoring candidate, and combines the selected results in reading order. If all candidates fall below the application threshold, the region can still be sent for human review.
Candidates for the same region must share the crop and content boundaries. Jev selects among existing candidates, so quality is bounded by their coverage and correctness.
Examples
The figure below compares the original image with candidates 1 and 2, showing how MiniCPM-OCR Jev scores text, formula, and table candidates.
Quick start
| Deployment | Guide |
|---|---|
| Cloud API | Single-candidate scoring, best-of-N, batched best-of-N (stub — being written) |
| Docker / local SDK | Environment, rendering options, service startup |
| vLLM backend | Service configuration with and without a renderer |
| SGLang | Deployment guide |
| llama.cpp | GGUF deployment guide |
| Ollama | Deployment guide |
| FlagOS (multi-chip) | Deployment guide |
When a service has a built-in renderer (cloud API, Docker, SDK), check verdict before using
the score — only scored means model scoring actually ran. Fixed values returned for precheck,
rendering, or forward-pass failures must not be read as low model scores.
Pipeline integration
- Keep page/region ids, original region images, region categories, and candidate text while parsing.
- Submit image + category + candidate text (renderer service), or image + rendered image (renderer-less service).
- Check status, associate scores with candidates, apply your threshold, and compare candidates within each region when several models are in play.
- Emit selected results in the original reading order and keep pending regions for reviewers.
Use score for one candidate, score_best for best-of-N within a block, and score_best_batch
across blocks — see the API documentation (stub for now;
until it lands use the vLLM deploy guide for Jev).
Fine-tuning
ms-swift guide: data format, binary classification head configuration, training commands, and JevOCRBench evaluation.
Related checkpoints
| Format | Hugging Face | ModelScope |
|---|---|---|
| BF16 (original) (this repo) | 🤗 | ModelScope |
| GGUF (llama.cpp) | 🤗 | ModelScope |
| AWQ W4A16 | 🤗 | ModelScope |
| GPTQ W4A16 | 🤗 | ModelScope |
Jev works on candidates from any parser. The companion parser is MiniCPM-OCR 1.0.
FAQ
Installation, model downloads, GPU memory, input formats, and unexpected outputs: FAQ.
License
Model weights, code, and documentation are released under the Apache License 2.0.