PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model
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Introduction
PaddleOCR-VL is a SOTA and resource-efficient model tailored for document parsing. Its core component is PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B, a compact yet powerful vision-language model (VLM) that integrates a NaViT-style dynamic resolution visual encoder with the ERNIE-4.5-0.3B language model to enable accurate element recognition. This innovative model efficiently supports 109 languages and excels in recognizing complex elements (e.g., text, tables, formulas, and charts), while maintaining minimal resource consumption. Through comprehensive evaluations on widely used public benchmarks and in-house benchmarks, PaddleOCR-VL achieves SOTA performance in both page-level document parsing and element-level recognition. It significantly outperforms existing solutions, exhibits strong competitiveness against top-tier VLMs, and delivers fast inference speeds. These strengths make it highly suitable for practical deployment in real-world scenarios.
Core Features
Compact yet Powerful VLM Architecture: We present a novel vision-language model that is specifically designed for resource-efficient inference, achieving outstanding performance in element recognition. By integrating a NaViT-style dynamic high-resolution visual encoder with the lightweight ERNIE-4.5-0.3B language model, we significantly enhance the model’s recognition capabilities and decoding efficiency. This integration maintains high accuracy while reducing computational demands, making it well-suited for efficient and practical document processing applications.
SOTA Performance on Document Parsing: PaddleOCR-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance in both page-level document parsing and element-level recognition. It significantly outperforms existing pipeline-based solutions and exhibiting strong competitiveness against leading vision-language models (VLMs) in document parsing. Moreover, it excels in recognizing complex document elements, such as text, tables, formulas, and charts, making it suitable for a wide range of challenging content types, including handwritten text and historical documents. This makes it highly versatile and suitable for a wide range of document types and scenarios.
Multilingual Support: PaddleOCR-VL Supports 109 languages, covering major global languages, including but not limited to Chinese, English, Japanese, Latin, and Korean, as well as languages with different scripts and structures, such as Russian (Cyrillic script), Arabic, Hindi (Devanagari script), and Thai. This broad language coverage substantially enhances the applicability of our system to multilingual and globalized document processing scenarios.
Model Architecture
News
2025.10.16🚀 We release PaddleOCR-VL, — a multilingual documents parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model with SOTA performance.2025.10.29Supports calling the core module PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B of PaddleOCR-VL via thetransformerslibrary.
Usage
Install Dependencies
Install PaddlePaddle and PaddleOCR:
python -m pip install paddlepaddle-gpu==3.2.0 -i https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/packages/stable/cu126/
python -m pip install -U "paddleocr[doc-parser]"
python -m pip install https://paddle-whl.bj.bcebos.com/nightly/cu126/safetensors/safetensors-0.6.2.dev0-cp38-abi3-linux_x86_64.whl
For Windows users, please use WSL or a Docker container.
Basic Usage
CLI usage:
paddleocr doc_parser -i https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/paddleocr_vl_demo.png
Python API usage:
from paddleocr import PaddleOCRVL
pipeline = PaddleOCRVL()
output = pipeline.predict("https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/paddleocr_vl_demo.png")
for res in output:
res.print()
res.save_to_json(save_path="output")
res.save_to_markdown(save_path="output")
Accelerate VLM Inference via Optimized Inference Servers
Start the VLM inference server (the default port is
8080):docker run \ --rm \ --gpus all \ --network host \ ccr-2vdh3abv-pub.cnc.bj.baidubce.com/paddlepaddle/paddlex-genai-vllm-serverCall the PaddleOCR CLI or Python API:
paddleocr doc_parser \ -i https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/paddleocr_vl_demo.png \ --vl_rec_backend vllm-server \ --vl_rec_server_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1from paddleocr import PaddleOCRVL pipeline = PaddleOCRVL(vl_rec_backend="vllm-server", vl_rec_server_url="http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1") output = pipeline.predict("https://paddle-model-ecology.bj.bcebos.com/paddlex/imgs/demo_image/paddleocr_vl_demo.png") for res in output: res.print() res.save_to_json(save_path="output") res.save_to_markdown(save_path="output")
For more usage details and parameter explanations, see the documentation.
PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B Usage with transformers
Currently, we support inference using the PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B model with the transformers library, which can recognize texts, formulas, tables, and chart elements. In the future, we plan to support full document parsing inference with transformers. Below is a simple script we provide to support inference using the PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B model with transformers.
[!NOTE] Note: We currently recommend using the official method for inference, as it is faster and supports page-level document parsing. The example code below only supports element-level recognition.
from PIL import Image
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoProcessor
DEVICE = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
CHOSEN_TASK = "ocr" # Options: 'ocr' | 'table' | 'chart' | 'formula'
PROMPTS = {
"ocr": "OCR:",
"table": "Table Recognition:",
"formula": "Formula Recognition:",
"chart": "Chart Recognition:",
}
model_path = "PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL"
image_path = "test.png"
image = Image.open(image_path).convert("RGB")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_path, trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
).to(DEVICE).eval()
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
{"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "image": image},
{"type": "text", "text": PROMPTS[CHOSEN_TASK]},
]
}
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=True,
add_generation_prompt=True,
return_dict=True,
return_tensors="pt"
).to(DEVICE)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1024)
outputs = processor.batch_decode(outputs, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(outputs)
Performance
Page-Level Document Parsing
1. OmniDocBench v1.5
PaddleOCR-VL achieves SOTA performance for overall, text, formula, tables and reading order on OmniDocBench v1.5
2. OmniDocBench v1.0
PaddleOCR-VL achieves SOTA performance for almost all metrics of overall, text, formula, tables and reading order on OmniDocBench v1.0
Notes:
- The metrics are from MinerU, OmniDocBench, and our own internal evaluations.
Element-level Recognition
1. Text
Comparison of OmniDocBench-OCR-block Performance
PaddleOCR-VL’s robust and versatile capability in handling diverse document types, establishing it as the leading method in the OmniDocBench-OCR-block performance evaluation.
Comparison of In-house-OCR Performance
In-house-OCR provides a evaluation of performance across multiple languages and text types. Our model demonstrates outstanding accuracy with the lowest edit distances in all evaluated scripts.
2. Table
Comparison of In-house-Table Performance
Our self-built evaluation set contains diverse types of table images, such as Chinese, English, mixed Chinese-English, and tables with various characteristics like full, partial, or no borders, book/manual formats, lists, academic papers, merged cells, as well as low-quality, watermarked, etc. PaddleOCR-VL achieves remarkable performance across all categories.
3. Formula
Comparison of In-house-Formula Performance
In-house-Formula evaluation set contains simple prints, complex prints, camera scans, and handwritten formulas. PaddleOCR-VL demonstrates the best performance in every category.
4. Chart
Comparison of In-house-Chart Performance
The evaluation set is broadly categorized into 11 chart categories, including bar-line hybrid, pie, 100% stacked bar, area, bar, bubble, histogram, line, scatterplot, stacked area, and stacked bar. PaddleOCR-VL not only outperforms expert OCR VLMs but also surpasses some 72B-level multimodal language models.
Visualization
Comprehensive Document Parsing
Text
Table
Formula
Chart
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank ERNIE, Keye, MinerU, OmniDocBench for providing valuable code, model weights and benchmarks. We also appreciate everyone's contribution to this open-source project!
Citation
If you find PaddleOCR-VL helpful, feel free to give us a star and citation.
@misc{cui2025paddleocrvlboostingmultilingualdocument,
title={PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model},
author={Cheng Cui and Ting Sun and Suyin Liang and Tingquan Gao and Zelun Zhang and Jiaxuan Liu and Xueqing Wang and Changda Zhou and Hongen Liu and Manhui Lin and Yue Zhang and Yubo Zhang and Handong Zheng and Jing Zhang and Jun Zhang and Yi Liu and Dianhai Yu and Yanjun Ma},
year={2025},
eprint={2510.14528},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14528},
}