README.md

---
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
language:
- multilingual
tags:
- baidu
- vision-language
- ocr
- custom_code
license: mit
library_name: transformers
---
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<h1 align="center">Unlimited OCR Works</h1>

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<h3 align="center">Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing.</h3>

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    <img src="assets/Unlimited-OCR.png" width="1000" alt="Unlimited OCR overview" />
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## Release
- [2026/06/22] 🚀 We present [Unlimited-OCR](https://github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR), aiming to push [Deepseek-OCR](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR) one step further.
- [2026/06/23] 🤝 Thanks to the ModelScope community for their support. Our model is now available at [ModelScope](https://modelscope.cn/models/PaddlePaddle/Unlimited-OCR).

## Inference

### Transformers
Inference using Huggingface transformers on NVIDIA GPUs. Requirements tested on python 3.12.3 + CUDA12.9：

```
torch==2.10.0
torchvision==0.25.0
transformers==4.57.1
Pillow==12.1.1
matplotlib==3.10.8
einops==0.8.2
addict==2.4.0
easydict==1.13
pymupdf==1.27.2.2
psutil==7.2.2
```

```python
import os
import torch
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model_name = 'baidu/Unlimited-OCR'

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    use_safetensors=True,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
model = model.eval().cuda()

# ── Single image supports two configs: gundam or base ──
# gundam: base_size=1024, image_size=640, crop_mode=True
# base: base_size=1024, image_size=1024, crop_mode=False
model.infer(
    tokenizer,
    prompt='<image>document parsing.',
    image_file='your_image.jpg',
    output_path='your/output/dir',
    base_size=1024, image_size=640, crop_mode=True,
    max_length=32768,
    no_repeat_ngram_size=35, ngram_window=128,
    save_results=True,
)

# ── Multi page / PDF only uses base (image_size=1024) ──
model.infer_multi(
    tokenizer,
    prompt='<image>Multi page parsing.',
    image_files=['page1.png', 'page2.png', 'page3.png'],
    output_path='your/output/dir',
    image_size=1024,
    max_length=32768,
    no_repeat_ngram_size=35, ngram_window=1024,
    save_results=True,
)

# ── PDF (convert pages to images, then multi-page parsing) ──
import tempfile, fitz  # PyMuPDF

def pdf_to_images(pdf_path, dpi=300):
    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
    tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='pdf_ocr_')
    mat = fitz.Matrix(dpi / 72, dpi / 72)
    paths = []
    for i, page in enumerate(doc):
        out = os.path.join(tmp_dir, f'page_{i+1:04d}.png')
        page.get_pixmap(matrix=mat).save(out)
        paths.append(out)
    doc.close()
    return paths

model.infer_multi(
    tokenizer,
    prompt='<image>Multi page parsing.',
    image_files=pdf_to_images('your_doc.pdf', dpi=300),
    output_path='your/output/dir',
    image_size=1024,
    max_length=32768,
    no_repeat_ngram_size=35, ngram_window=1024,
    save_results=True,
)
```

### SGLang

Set up the environment (uv-managed virtualenv). Install the local SGLang wheel first,
then pin `kernels==0.9.0` and install PyMuPDF for PDF-to-image conversion:
```shell
uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

uv pip install wheel/sglang-0.0.0.dev11416+g92e8bb79e-py3-none-any.whl
uv pip install kernels==0.11.7
uv pip install pymupdf==1.27.2.2
```

Start the SGLang server:
```shell
python -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model baidu/Unlimited-OCR \
    --served-model-name Unlimited-OCR \
    --attention-backend fa3 \
    --page-size 1 \
    --mem-fraction-static 0.8 \
    --context-length 32768 \
    --enable-custom-logit-processor \
    --disable-overlap-schedule \
    --skip-server-warmup \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 10000
```

Send streaming requests to the OpenAI-compatible API:
```python
import base64
import json
import os
import tempfile

import fitz
import requests
from sglang.srt.sampling.custom_logit_processor import DeepseekOCRNoRepeatNGramLogitProcessor

server_url = "http://127.0.0.1:10000"

session = requests.Session()
session.trust_env = False


def pdf_to_images(pdf_path, dpi=300):
    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
    tmp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="pdf_ocr_")
    mat = fitz.Matrix(dpi / 72, dpi / 72)
    image_paths = []
    for i, page in enumerate(doc):
        image_path = os.path.join(tmp_dir, f"page_{i + 1:04d}.png")
        page.get_pixmap(matrix=mat).save(image_path)
        image_paths.append(image_path)
    doc.close()
    return image_paths


def encode_image(image_path):
    ext = os.path.splitext(image_path)[1].lower()
    mime = "image/jpeg" if ext in (".jpg", ".jpeg") else f"image/{ext.lstrip('.')}"
    with open(image_path, "rb") as f:
        data = base64.b64encode(f.read()).decode("utf-8")
    return {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": f"data:{mime};base64,{data}"}}


def build_content(prompt, image_paths):
    return [{"type": "text", "text": prompt}] + [encode_image(path) for path in image_paths]


def generate(prompt, image_paths, image_mode, ngram_window):
    payload = {
        "model": "Unlimited-OCR",
        "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": build_content(prompt, image_paths)}],
        "temperature": 0,
        "skip_special_tokens": False,
        "images_config": {"image_mode": image_mode},
        "custom_logit_processor": DeepseekOCRNoRepeatNGramLogitProcessor.to_str(),
        "custom_params": {
            "ngram_size": 35,
            "window_size": ngram_window,
        },
        "stream": True,
    }
    response = session.post(
        f"{server_url}/v1/chat/completions",
        headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
        data=json.dumps(payload),
        timeout=1200,
        stream=True,
    )
    response.raise_for_status()

    chunks = []
    for line in response.iter_lines(chunk_size=1, decode_unicode=True):
        if not line or not line.startswith("data: "):
            continue
        data = line[len("data: "):]
        if data == "[DONE]":
            break
        event = json.loads(data)
        delta = event["choices"][0].get("delta", {}).get("content", "")
        if delta:
            print(delta, end="", flush=True)
            chunks.append(delta)
    print()
    return "".join(chunks)


# Single image supports two configs: gundam or base. Example below uses gundam.
generate("document parsing.", ["your_image.jpg"], image_mode="gundam", ngram_window=128)

# Multi image (base only)
generate("Multi page parsing.", ["page1.png", "page2.png"], image_mode="base", ngram_window=1024)

# PDF (base only)
generate("Multi page parsing.", pdf_to_images("your_doc.pdf", dpi=300), image_mode="base", ngram_window=1024)
```


## Visualization

<img src="assets/long-horizon-ocr.gif" width="100%" alt="Long-horizon OCR demo" />

## Acknowledgement

We would like to thank [Deepseek-OCR](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR), [Deepseek-OCR-2](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2), [PaddleOCR](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR) for their valuable models and ideas.

## Citation
Coming soon!
<!-- ```bibtex
@article{,
  title={Unlimited OCR Works},
  author={},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:},
  year={2026}
} -->