DeepSeek-OCR
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