DeepSeek-OCR

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DeepSeek-OCR is a vision-language model for Optical Character Recognition with "Contexts Optical Compression." It supports native and dynamic resolutions, multiple prompt modes (document-to-markdown, free OCR, figure parsing, grounding), and can be run via vLLM (high-throughput) or HuggingFace Transformers. It processes images and PDFs, outputting structured text or markdown.

Installation

Prerequisites

• CUDA 11.8+, PyTorch 2.6.0
• Python 3.12.9 (via conda recommended)

Setup

git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR.git
cd DeepSeek-OCR