README.md

metadata

title: NaviDC-OCR
emoji: 📄
colorFrom: pink
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.50.0
app_file: app.py
short_description: Parse digital & photographed documents into Markdown
python_version: '3.12'
startup_duration_timeout: 30m
license: apache-2.0
models:
  - StarDoc-AI/NaviDC-OCR
pinned: false

NaviDC-OCR

Demo of StarDoc-AI/NaviDC-OCR, a 1.2B document-parsing vision-language model that unifies digital and camera-captured documents (paper · code).

The app follows the authors' two-stage pipeline:

1. Layout — the page is resized to 1036×1036 and the model emits reading-ordered regions. Detection mode returns axis-aligned boxes (digital pages, flat scans); Segmentation mode returns multi-point polygons, which is the paper's geometry-aware path for photographed, curved or crumpled pages.
2. Recognition — each region is cropped (polygon-masked and de-rotated where needed) and recognized with the block-type-specific prompt and sampling parameters from the reference implementation. Tables come back as OTSL and are converted to HTML, equations to LaTeX, using the authors' post-processors (vendored under NaviOCR/).

A third Single region mode skips layout and runs the authors' one-block path (block_parse) over the whole image with the prompt for a chosen block type — table, formula, code, seal, or a chart / scientific figure, which the model converts into the table it implies.

Outputs: rendered document, Markdown source, layout overlay, and the raw block list as JSON.

Credits

Example pages are the official assets from the NaviDC-OCR model card (Apache-2.0). The NaviOCR/ package is a trimmed copy of the authors' reference implementation (Apache-2.0), limited to the modules needed for the transformers backend.