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<h1 align="center">Unlimited OCR Works</h1>

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

## Release
- [2026/07/21] 🤝 Thanks to the [ms-swift community](https://github.com/modelscope/ms-swift) for their support, our model now supports training with [ms-swift](https://github.com/modelscope/ms-swift).
- [2026/07/03] 🤝 Thanks to the Baidu Cloud team for their support. Our model is now available on [Baidu Cloud](https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/OCR/s/fmr1p39gb).
- [2026/06/28] 🤝 Thanks to the [vLLM community](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) and [Tianyu Guo](https://github.com/gty111) for their support, our model now supports vLLM inference.
- [2026/06/24] 🤝 Thanks to [AK](https://x.com/_akhaliq) for creating a demo for us. It is now available at [Hugging Face Spaces](https://huggingface.co/spaces/baidu/Unlimited-OCR).
- [2026/06/23] 📄 Our paper is now available on [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23050).
- [2026/06/23] 🤝 Thanks to the [ModelScope community](https://github.com/modelscope) for their support. Our model is now available at [ModelScope](https://modelscope.cn/models/PaddlePaddle/Unlimited-OCR).
- [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.

## 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,
)
```

### vLLM

Please refer to the official vLLM recipe for deployment details:

**Recipe:** [https://recipes.vllm.ai/baidu/Unlimited-OCR](https://recipes.vllm.ai/baidu/Unlimited-OCR)

##### Docker Images
Use the following Docker images depending on your GPU platform:

**Default (CUDA 13.0):**
```bash
docker pull vllm/vllm-openai:unlimited-ocr
```
**For Hopper GPUs (CUDA 12.9)**
```bash
docker pull vllm/vllm-openai:unlimited-ocr-cu129
```

### 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)
```

For batch inference, `infer.py` starts the SGLang server automatically and sends concurrent requests for an image directory or PDF:
```shell
# Image directory
python infer.py \
    --image_dir ./examples/images \
    --output_dir ./outputs \
    --concurrency 8 \
    --image_mode gundam

# PDF pages
python infer.py \
    --pdf ./examples/document.pdf \
    --output_dir ./outputs \
    --concurrency 8 \
    --image_mode gundam
```

Useful options:
```shell
--model_dir baidu/Unlimited-OCR   # Local path or Hugging Face model ID
--gpu 0                           # CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES value
--server_log ./log/sglang_server.log
```

For OmniDocBench evaluation, you need to perform the following post-processing.
```python
DET_RE = re.compile(r'<\|det\|>([^<\s]+)(?:\s*\[[^\]]*\])?\s*<\|/det\|>(.*)', re.DOTALL)

def remove_det(raw: str) -> str:
    """
    Strip <|det|>type [bbox]<|/det|> markers, group lines belonging to the
    same block with \\n, and separate different blocks with \\n\\n.
    """
    blocks = []
    cur = None
    for line in raw.splitlines():
        line = line.rstrip()
        if not line:
            continue
        m = DET_RE.match(line)
        if m:
            category, content = m.group(1).strip(), m.group(2).strip()
            if category == 'image':
                continue
            if cur is not None:
                blocks.append(cur)
            cur = [content] if content else []
            continue
        if cur is None:
            cur = []
        cur.append(line)
    if cur is not None:
        blocks.append(cur)
    text = '\n\n'.join('\n'.join(b) for b in blocks).strip()
    return text
```

## Visualization

## 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
```bibtex
@misc{yin2026unlimitedocrworks,
      title={Unlimited OCR Works}, 
      author={Youyang Yin and Huanhuan Liu and YY and Qunyi Xie and Chaorun Liu and Shiqi Yang and Shaohua Wang and Zhanlong Liu and Hao Zou and Jinyue Chen and Shu Wei and Jingjing Wu and Mingxin Huang and Zhen Wu and Guibin Wang and Tengyu Du and Lei Jia},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2606.23050},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23050}, 
}