Unlimited-OCR — AWQ (W4A16)

AWQ 4-bit (W4A16) quantization of baidu/Unlimited-OCR, a 3B vision-language OCR model that pushes DeepSeek-OCR one step further (one-shot, long-horizon document parsing). This repo quantizes the DeepSeek-V2 MoE text decoder with activation-aware scaling (AWQ) while keeping the vision tower in BF16, so it stays a drop-in transformers model.

⚠️ Runtime requirements. This is custom remote code, so load with trust_remote_code=True, transformers 4.57.x, and compressed-tensors installed. W4A16 (int4) runs on any CUDA GPU; compressed-tensors handles the 4-bit unpacking at load.

This quant

Quick start

pip install "transformers==4.57.3" compressed-tensors accelerate torch torchvision \
            einops addict easydict matplotlib pillow

import torch
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

repo = "sahilchachra/Unlimited-OCR-AWQ"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True,
                                  dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="cuda").eval()

text = model.infer(
    tok,
    prompt="<image>\n<|grounding|>Convert the document to markdown.",
    image_file="document.png", output_path="./out",
    base_size=1024, image_size=1024, crop_mode=False,   # "base" mode
    save_results=True, eval_mode=True,
)
print(text)

Prompting guide

Unlimited-OCR uses the DeepSeek-OCR prompt vocabulary. The prompt must contain <image>; prefix it with <|grounding|> whenever you also want bounding boxes for what was read.

Resolution modes

• base — base_size=1024, image_size=1024, crop_mode=False. Good default for normal pages.
• gundam — base_size=1024, image_size=640, crop_mode=True. Tiles the page; use for dense or large/high-resolution documents.

Understanding the output (grounding tokens)

With <|grounding|>, the model interleaves the recognized text with detection boxes:

<|det|>title [37, 64, 464, 132]<|/det|>INVOICE #2026-0623
<|det|>text  [37, 194, 350, 247]<|/det|>Bill To: Sahil Chachra
<|det|>text  [37, 483, 329, 543]<|/det|>Total Due: $44.00

Each [x1, y1, x2, y2] is the bounding box (top-left → bottom-right) of that span, in the coordinate space of the model's input image. Drop the <|det|>...<|/det|> tags if you only want text, or parse them to overlay boxes / rebuild layout. Without <|grounding|> you get plain text (or Markdown) with no box tags.

Serving

The original model ships an SGLang wheel and a vLLM path (see the base model card). W4A16 / compressed-tensors weights load directly in runtimes with compressed-tensors support (e.g. vLLM); otherwise use the transformers snippet above.

About the model

• Architecture: UnlimitedOCRForCausalLM (DeepSeek-OCR architecture) — a DeepEncoder vision tower (SAM-ViT-B + CLIP-L/14, 1024×1024 input, 16× downsample) → linear projector → DeepSeek-V2 MoE text decoder (12 layers, hidden 1280, 64 routed + 2 shared experts, 6 experts/token; layer 0 dense).
• Task: multilingual OCR / document parsing — single image, multi-page, and PDF (one-shot long-horizon parsing).
• License: MIT (inherited from the base model).

How this was made

Unlimited-OCR is custom remote code whose forward only runs the vision tower when images are passed, so AWQ calibration feeds text only (images=None), exercising the pure DeepSeek-V2 decoder. Per-layer AWQ mappings were built from the live module tree (attention input_layernorm→q,k,v and v→o; MoE post_attention_layernorm→ every expert + shared-expert gate/up, plus per-expert up→down). The fx-based "sequential" pipeline can't trace this custom model, so the basic pipeline (real end-to-end forward + activation hooks) was used.

Verified

Loaded in transformers and run on a test document — OCR output matches BF16, e.g.:

<|det|>title [37, 64, 464, 130]<|/det|>INVOICE #2026-0623
<|det|>text  [37, 480, 329, 540]<|/det|>Total Due: $44.00

Limitations

• 4-bit weights trade a little accuracy for size; for the highest fidelity use the original BF16 model. For OCR, this AWQ build is effectively lossless on tested documents.
• The vision encoder and MoE router stay BF16 (small, accuracy-sensitive).
• English-/multilingual-text centric; verify critical fields on hard scans.

Other formats

• NVFP4: sahilchachra/Unlimited-OCR-NVFP4
• GGUF (llama.cpp): sahilchachra/Unlimited-OCR-GGUF
• MLX: sahilchachra/unlimited-ocr-8bit-mlx

Credits

Base model baidu/Unlimited-OCR (MIT), built on DeepSeek-OCR. Quantized with llm-compressor. License: MIT.