Instructions to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr

SGLang

How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr 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 "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

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 "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr
```

ERROR：ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'transformers_modules.rednote-hilab.dots'

by Chienwang - opened Aug 1, 2025

Discussion

Chienwang

Aug 1, 2025

It caused by modeling_dots_ocr.py -> from .modeling_dots_vision import DotsVisionTransformer

Chienwang

Aug 1, 2025

The name 'dots.ocr' is conflict in loading of transformers_modules

Chienwang changed discussion status to closed Aug 1, 2025

MohamedRashad

Aug 1, 2025

what is the solution ?

Chienwang

Aug 4, 2025

what is the solution ?

Download -> rename -> load from local

miguelamendez

Aug 22, 2025

paolovic

Aug 26, 2025

•

edited Aug 26, 2025

I am facing a similar issue

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/personal/p/dots_ocr_test/test_dots_ocr.py", line 7, in <module>
    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/environments/p_paddleocr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/models/auto/auto_factory.py", line 558, in from_pretrained
    model_class = get_class_from_dynamic_module(
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/environments/p_paddleocr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py", line 570, in get_class_from_dynamic_module
    return get_class_in_module(class_name, final_module, force_reload=force_download)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/environments/p_paddleocr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py", line 267, in get_class_in_module
    module_spec.loader.exec_module(module)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/.cache/huggingface/modules/transformers_modules/dots.ocr/modeling_dots_ocr.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .modeling_dots_vision import DotsVisionTransformer
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'transformers_modules.dots'

Edit: Problem solved: https://github.com/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr/issues/58

Chienwang

Aug 26, 2025

"dots.ocr" is a bad name. The char '.' is considered a module by Transformer code. Thus, we need download the repo and rename the repo to "dots_ocr". Then load this repo from local.

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