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AI researchers and document-processing engineers who need an open OCR model for efficient document parsing, Markdown conversion, and vision-text compression experiments

About DeepSeek-OCR

DeepSeek-OCR is an open source model for Contexts Optical Compression, built to explore the boundaries of visual-text compression and investigate the role of vision encoders from an LLM-centric viewpoint. It is designed to compress long contexts through optical 2D mapping, using DeepEncoder as the core engine and DeepSeek3B-MoE-A570M as the decoder. DeepEncoder maintains low activations under high-resolution input while achieving high compression ratios, keeping the number of vision tokens manageable for document understanding. The model supports OCR and document parsing workflows for images and PDFs, with inference through vLLM or Transformers. Users can run image OCR with streaming output, process PDFs with high concurrency, or run batch evaluation for benchmarks. DeepSeek-OCR can convert documents to Markdown, perform free OCR without layouts, parse figures, describe images in detail, and locate referenced text inside an image.

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