Update README.md

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,92 @@
----
-license: apache-2.0
----
+# CrossLing-OCR-Mini
+
+🚀 **CrossLing-OCR-Mini** is a lightweight yet powerful OCR model designed for **low-resource multilingual and complex-layout document scenarios**.  
+The model focuses on accurate text recognition while preserving original document structure, making it suitable for multilingual document understanding research.
+
+---
+
+## 🔍 Model Overview
+
+CrossLing-OCR-Mini is optimized for **low-resource and structurally complex languages**, achieving strong performance across **11 languages** while remaining deployable on **consumer-grade hardware**.
+
+**Key features:**
+- Accurate text recognition with layout/format preservation
+- Optimized for low-resource scripts
+- Lightweight (~580MB) and easy to deploy
+- Designed for research and benchmarking purposes
+
+### Supported & Optimized Languages
+- High-resource: Chinese, English
+- Low-resource (specially optimized):  
+  **Tibetan, Mongolian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Zhuang**
+  
+Experimental results show that CrossLing-OCR-Mini **outperforms or matches mainstream OCR systems** on multiple low-resource languages.
+
+---
+
+## 🧪 Performance Notes & Limitations
+
+While CrossLing-OCR-Mini achieves strong overall performance, we note that:
+- **Mongolian and Uyghur** OCR accuracy still has room for improvement
+- Performance may degrade in extremely noisy, handwritten, or out-of-distribution scenarios
+
+These limitations will be addressed in future iterations of the model.
+
+---
+
+## 📦 Model Variants
+
+| Version | Purpose | Availability |
+|------|------|------|
+| **CrossLing-OCR-Mini** | Research & academic use | ✅ Open-sourced |
+| **CrossLing-OCR-Pro-Preview** | Commercial / production use | 🔒 Contact required |
+
+📩 For access to **CrossLing-OCR-Pro-Preview**, please contact:  
+**zhumx@ncut.edu.cn**
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 Intended Use
+
+**This model is intended solely for:**
+- Academic research
+- Scientific experimentation
+- Benchmarking and method comparison
+- Low-resource language OCR studies
+
+---
+
+## 🚫 Prohibited Use & Disclaimer
+
+This model **must not be used** for:
+- Any illegal or unlawful activities
+- Any applications that violate social ethics, public order, or applicable laws
+- Surveillance, discrimination, or harmful decision-making systems
+
+⚠️ **Disclaimer**:
+- Any misuse of this model is **strictly the responsibility of the user**
+- The authors and maintainers **do not endorse** and are **not liable for** any consequences arising from improper or malicious use
+- Views or actions enabled by this model **do not reflect the opinions of the authors**
+
+---
+
+## ⚖️ License
+
+This model is released **for research purposes only**.  
+Commercial use is **not permitted** without explicit authorization.
+
+(Please contact the authors for commercial licensing or extended usage.)
+
+---
+
+## 📖 Citation
+
+If you use CrossLing-OCR-Mini in your research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{crossling-ocr-mini,
+  title     = {CrossLing-OCR: Advancing Low-Resource Multilingual Text Recognition through Multi-Stage Vision-Language Training},
+  author    = {CrossLing Team},
+  year      = {2025},
+  note      = {Research-only OCR model}
+}