Instructions to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2", trust_remote_code=True)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2

SGLang

How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2
```
Browse Quantizations to use this model in llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible app.

🌟 Github | 📥 Model Download | 📄 Paper Link | 📄 Arxiv Paper Link |

DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow

Explore more human-like visual encoding.

Usage

Inference using Huggingface transformers on NVIDIA GPUs. Requirements tested on python 3.12.9 + CUDA11.8：

torch==2.6.0
transformers==4.46.3
tokenizers==0.20.3
einops
addict 
easydict
pip install flash-attn==2.7.3 --no-build-isolation

from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
import torch
import os
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = '0'
model_name = 'deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2'

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name, _attn_implementation='flash_attention_2', trust_remote_code=True, use_safetensors=True)
model = model.eval().cuda().to(torch.bfloat16)

# prompt = "<image>\nFree OCR. "
prompt = "<image>\n<|grounding|>Convert the document to markdown. "
image_file = 'your_image.jpg'
output_path = 'your/output/dir'


res = model.infer(tokenizer, prompt=prompt, image_file=image_file, output_path = output_path, base_size = 1024, image_size = 768, crop_mode=True, save_results = True)

vLLM

Refer to 🌟GitHub for guidance on model inference acceleration and PDF processing, etc.

Support-Modes

Dynamic resolution
- Default: (0-6)×768×768 + 1×1024×1024 — (0-6)×144 + 256 visual tokens ✅

Main Prompts

# document: <image>\n<|grounding|>Convert the document to markdown.
# without layouts: <image>\nFree OCR.

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank DeepSeek-OCR, Vary, GOT-OCR2.0, MinerU, PaddleOCR for their valuable models and ideas.

We also appreciate the benchmark OmniDocBench.

Citation

@article{wei2025deepseek,
  title={DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression},
  author={Wei, Haoran and Sun, Yaofeng and Li, Yukun},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18234},
  year={2025}
}
@article{wei2026deepseek,
  title={DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow},
  author={Wei, Haoran and Sun, Yaofeng and Li, Yukun},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20552},
  year={2026}
}