Instructions to use sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL")
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)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL", device_map="auto")
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?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL",
		"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/sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL

SGLang

How to use sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL 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 "sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL" \
    --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": "sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL",
		"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 "sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL" \
        --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": "sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL",
		"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 sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/sionic-ai/PepperOCR-VL
```

Very Promising!

by yano2mch - opened about 3 hours ago

Discussion

yano2mch

about 3 hours ago

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edited about 3 hours ago

Being an OCR model i threw it through a couple of images that i had issues with before with Gemma4 and other models.

Damn near perfect from what i can see. I mean it didn't carry the formatting; But that's small potatoes compared to it getting spelling wrong, or just deciding to write something unrelated, drop paragraphs, or decide to spellcheck and NOT follow instructions.

Mind you til this point I've relied on Tesseract OCR which does probably... 95% accurate (with a lot of common problems, like | or 1 instead of I). Gemma4 i got decent enough results but a few pages borked; But this gets much higher accuracy so far than even that.

Yeah I've only ran about 15 pages through it so far from 1bit text image to full-blown color image with slightly angled pages. But damn if this doesn't actually OCR correctly as far as i can tell. At least for english.

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