DeepSeek-OCR-2 is the second-generation optical character recognition system developed to improve document understanding by introducing a “visual causal flow” mechanism, enabling the encoder to reorder visual tokens in a way that better reflects semantic structure rather than strict raster scan order. It is designed to handle complex layouts and noisy documents by giving the model causal reasoning capabilities that mimic human visual scanning behavior, enhancing OCR performance on documents with rich spatial structure. The repository provides model code and inference scripts that let researchers and developers run and benchmark the system on both images and PDFs, with support for batch evaluation and optimized pipelines leveraging vLLM and transformers.
Features
- Visual causal token ordering for improved OCR
- Support for complex layouts and semantic structure
- Inference scripts for images and PDF processing
- Integration with vLLM and transformer backends
- Batch evaluation and benchmark tools
- Outputs suited for markdown and structured text