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DeepSeek-OCR

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DeepSeek-OCR is a vision-language model for converting visually encoded documents into text. The initial release investigates optical compression of long textual contexts, combining a compact visual encoder with a language decoder for OCR, structured extraction, and document-to-Markdown conversion. Public weights, code, and local inference examples support self-hosted document processing. Its image-to-text language decoder places it in scope as a specialized language-capable multimodal model, rather than an embedding or image generator. The official README also demonstrates general image description using a natural-language prompt, establishing language-capable visual understanding beyond pure transcription.

2025-10-20
3B
DeepEncoder visual encoder and MoE language decoder
MIT

Specifications

Parameters
3B
Architecture
DeepEncoder visual encoder and MoE language decoder
License
MIT
Type
multimodal
Modalities
textimage

Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
DeepSeek
API Access
Not Available
Chat Interface
Not Available

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
OCRdocument-to-Markdownstructured extractionvisual text compressionnatural-language image description
Known Limitations
Recognition accuracy depends on image resolution, document layout, and compression ratio.It is a document-reading specialization rather than a general conversation model.
Notable Use Cases
document digitizationRAG document preparationOCR research

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