--- title: "PaddleOCR-VL" kind: "Kit" category: "Productivity" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/03a8220f-75d7-45bb-a395-caa387ddd320" updated: "2026-11-13" --- # PaddleOCR-VL > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Reads document images and returns their text, in a vision-language model under one billion parameters. For people who parse English and Chinese documents with PaddleOCR on their own machine. PaddleOCR-VL is a kit in the Productivity category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-13. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by PaddlePaddle ## About ### What it is PaddleOCR-VL is a compact vision-language model from PaddlePaddle that turns document images into text. It has about 959 million parameters and is built on ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle. Its title describes it as a model for multilingual document parsing. ### Who it suits People who need text pulled out of scans, photos of pages and other document images, and who want it done locally. | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Office work | Admin staff | Turn scanned pages into editable text | Digitize a stack of paper forms | | Development | Developers | Add document reading to an app through PaddleOCR | Parse uploaded pages in a document tool | | Research | Students and researchers | Extract text from papers and book pages | Read a scanned chapter in English or Chinese | If your documents are already digital text, you can skip it. ### Where to use it - Your own computer with Python, on Windows, macOS or Linux - Programs built on the PaddleOCR library | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Document parsing | Developers | Text read from a page image | | Scan digitizing | Office teams | Text from scanned paper | | Bilingual documents | Students | Text from English and Chinese pages | ### How to set it up - Python with pip - About 1.9 GB of disk space for the BF16 weights, or about 479 MB at 4-bit (an estimate) - The PaddleOCR library, which the model is made for 1. Install the Hugging Face hub tool. 2. Download the model files. 3. Follow the model card for the PaddleOCR steps that load and run them. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL ``` ### How to use it You give the model an image of a document and it returns the text it reads. The part of the card available here does not show a run command, so use the full model card for the exact call. ### Example You point it at a scanned page from a report. It reads the page and gives you the text back, which you can then search or edit. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new, begin with one clean scan and compare the output with the page by eye. The model is small, so a normal computer can hold it. For experts, this is a vision-language model of 959M parameters on top of a 0.3B ERNIE base. That size is a trade of reading accuracy for low memory and fast start-up, which suits batch document work. You load a page image → The vision part reads the layout → The language part writes the text → You get the page text back ### Good to know The Hugging Face record lists English and Chinese as the languages. - License: Apache 2.0, as the Hugging Face record lists it. - Cost to run: no API key or account is named for a downloaded copy. You supply the computer. - Data it reaches: downloading reaches Hugging Face. The card shown here does not describe it reaching your files or the web on its own. - Not for: the card shown here names no banned uses. It is aimed at reading documents, not at chatting. ## README ````markdown # PaddleOCR-VL Reads document images and returns their text, in a vision-language model under one billion parameters. For people who parse English and Chinese documents with PaddleOCR on their own machine. Made by PaddlePaddle on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: PaddleOCR-VL is a compact vision-language model from PaddlePaddle that turns document images into text. It has about 959 million parameters and is built on ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle. Its title describes it as a model for multilingual document parsing. Who it suits: People who need text pulled out of scans, photos of pages and other document images, and who want it done locally. ```table Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Office work | Admin staff | Turn scanned pages into editable text | Digitize a stack of paper forms Development | Developers | Add document reading to an app through PaddleOCR | Parse uploaded pages in a document tool Research | Students and researchers | Extract text from papers and book pages | Read a scanned chapter in English or Chinese ``` If your documents are already digital text, you can skip it. Where to use it: - Your own computer with Python, on Windows, macOS or Linux - Programs built on the PaddleOCR library ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Document parsing | Developers | Text read from a page image Scan digitizing | Office teams | Text from scanned paper Bilingual documents | Students | Text from English and Chinese pages ``` How to set it up: - Python with pip - About 1.9 GB of disk space for the BF16 weights, or about 479 MB at 4-bit (an estimate) - The PaddleOCR library, which the model is made for 1. Install the Hugging Face hub tool. 2. Download the model files. 3. Follow the model card for the PaddleOCR steps that load and run them. ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL ``` How to use it: You give the model an image of a document and it returns the text it reads. The part of the card available here does not show a run command, so use the full model card for the exact call. Example: You point it at a scanned page from a report. It reads the page and gives you the text back, which you can then search or edit. For newcomers and experts: If you are new, begin with one clean scan and compare the output with the page by eye. The model is small, so a normal computer can hold it. For experts, this is a vision-language model of 959M parameters on top of a 0.3B ERNIE base. That size is a trade of reading accuracy for low memory and fast start-up, which suits batch document work. ```flow You load a page image The vision part reads the layout The language part writes the text You get the page text back ``` Good to know: The Hugging Face record lists English and Chinese as the languages. - License: Apache 2.0, as the Hugging Face record lists it. - Cost to run: no API key or account is named for a downloaded copy. You supply the computer. - Data it reaches: downloading reaches Hugging Face. The card shown here does not describe it reaching your files or the web on its own. - Not for: the card shown here names no banned uses. It is aimed at reading documents, not at chatting. ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: image text to text - Library: PaddleOCR - Parameters: 959M - Weights: about 1.9 GB in BF16; about 479 MB at 4-bit (estimate) - Formats: Safetensors - Downloads in the last 30 days: 12,780 - Likes: 1,685 - License: apache-2.0 - Languages: en, zh - Based on: baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle - Quantized versions: 9 - Fine-tunes: 7 - Tags: paddleocr, safetensors, paddleocr_vl, ernie4.5, paddlepaddle, image-to-text, document-parse, layout, table, formula, chart, image-text-to-text ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL - Files: https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL ``` Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 4 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 4 KB ``` ## Source [PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | PaddleOCR-VL (this page) | 12,780 | 1,685 | 959M | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-06 | | [PaddleOCR-VL-1.6](https://mindket.com/p/3fa47ed2-52f8-45fd-afc5-1286a5c4ef62) | 100,031 | 585 | 959M | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-06 | | [waqf-ocr-hand-written-v1](https://mindket.com/p/78309b31-df5b-408b-acef-28a933a8d0a0) | 266 | 7 | 959M | apache-2.0 | 2026-06-09 | | [Chandra OCR 2](https://mindket.com/p/a6e4f077-438e-4d39-950e-b0d5bfc59501) | 1,356,074 | 606 | 5.3B | openrail | 2026-06-26 | | [Surya OCR 2.5](https://mindket.com/p/382aaad0-7644-4eca-ac3b-a85a0841b604) | 75,033 | 52 | 689M | openrail | 2026-10-29 | | [Surya 2.5 GGUF](https://mindket.com/p/0d08b30b-fd57-4e61-a8a1-da92d56f2592) | 126,232 | 8 | 589M | openrail | 2026-10-29 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-13. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · daemonologist · 2025-10-16](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45607613): PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Compact VLM - [Bluesky · Adina Yakup · 2026-01-29](https://bsky.app/profile/adinayakup.bsky.social/post/3mdkljpvhw22a): Baidu just released a new VLM : PaddleOCR-VL-1.5🔥 huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle... ✨ 0.9B - Apache 2.0 ✨ 94.5% OmniDocBench v1.5 ✨ Multilingual OCR: strong on rare characters \& ancient texts - [Hacker News · tom510 · 2025-10-17](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45614534): PaddleOCR-VL (0.9B) SOTA OCR - [Bluesky · Raymond Neilson · 2026-04-11](https://bsky.app/profile/delta-vee.bsky.social/post/3mjajwlbask2u): There's also PaddlePaddle with the PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 model (also using PP-DocLayout-V3 for initial layout pass) if GLM-OCR's setup doesn't work for you - [Hacker News · mrkn1 · 2026-06-01](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357036): Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages: It should support 109 languages. More info here: https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL - [Bluesky · a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 · 2026-11-09](https://bsky.app/profile/drunk.moe/post/3mzunry5m7c2u): www.paddleocr.ai/main/en/vers... its sho good at least for me - [Hacker News · mrkn1 · 2026-05-31](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345137): Show HN: CPU-only fast OCR for screenshots, images, PDFs, webpages: I haven't. But the evals of the underlying model are published here, including on Omnibench. https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 - [Bluesky · デイリーHuggingFaceトレンド · 2026-06-02](https://bsky.app/profile/huggingfacetrends.bsky.social/post/3mncqyghvdw27): 今日のHuggingFaceトレンド PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 PaddleOCR-VL-1.6によるドキュメント解析の精度向上を目的としたリポジトリです。 領域の精緻化や段階的なポストトレーニングといった手法を用いることで、より高度な文書解析の実現を目指しています。 - [Hacker News · coder543 · 2026-02-11](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976224): GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding: There are a bunch of new OCR models. I’ve also heard very good things about these two in particular: - LightOnOCR-2-1B: https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B - PaddleOCR-VL-1.5: https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 The OCR leaderboards I’ve seen leave a lot to be… - [Bluesky · デイリーHuggingFaceトレンド · 2026-02-04](https://bsky.app/profile/huggingfacetrends.bsky.social/post/3mdzokbsgp22r): 今日のHuggingFaceトレンド PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 PaddleOCR-VL-1.5は、堅牢なワイルドなドキュメント解析を目指した0.9BのマルチタスクVLM（Vision-Language Model）です。 ベースモデルはbaidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddleを使用し、PaddleOCRライブラリを基盤としています。 - [Hacker News · cess11 · 2026-01-20](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696490): Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API: Why is 12GB+ VRAM a requirement? The OCR model looks kind of small, https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL/tree/main, so I'm assuming it is some processing afterwards it would be used for. - [Bluesky · デイリーHuggingFaceトレンド · 2026-02-02](https://bsky.app/profile/huggingfacetrends.bsky.social/post/3mdunwlmcnk2j): 今日のHuggingFaceトレンド PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 PaddleOCR-VL-1.5は、PaddleOCRを基盤とした0.9BのVLM（Vision-Language Model）です。 主に、現実世界のドキュメント解析タスクを堅牢に行うことを目的としています。 BaiduのERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddleモデルをベースに構築されています。 ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2026-11-06 - First published: 2025-10-16 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-13 - Something wrong? 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