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*This model was published in HF papers on 2026-01-28 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2026-06-01.*

# DeepSeek-OCR-2


## Overview

The DeepSeek-OCR-2 model was proposed in [Visual Causal Flow: A Novel Approach to OCR-Specialized Vision-Language Models](https://huggingface.co/papers/2601.20552) by the DeepSeek team.

DeepSeek-OCR-2 is an OCR-specialized vision-language model built on a distinctive architecture: a SAM ViT-B vision encoder feeds into a Qwen2 hybrid attention encoder, which is connected through an MLP projector to a DeepSeek-V2 Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. A key feature of the model is its hybrid attention mechanism, which applies bidirectional attention over image tokens and causal attention over query tokens, enabling efficient and accurate document understanding.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2/resolve/main/assets/fig1.png" width="600">

<small> DeepSeek-OCR 2: Visual Causal Flow.</small>

This model was contributed by [thisisiron](https://huggingface.co/thisisiron).


## Usage example

### Plain OCR

```python
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
    "deepseek-community/DeepSeek-OCR-2", device_map="auto"
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("deepseek-community/DeepSeek-OCR-2")

image = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/fixtures_got_ocr/resolve/main/image_ocr.jpg"
inputs = processor(images=image, text="<image>\nFree OCR.", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, do_sample=False, max_new_tokens=256)
processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=True)
# "R&D QUALITY IMPROVEMENT\nSUGGESTION/SOLUTION FORM\nName/Phone Ext. : (...)"
```

### Grounding with markdown conversion

The `<|grounding|>` token enables coordinate-aware output with `<|ref|>` and `<|det|>` tags.

```python
inputs = processor(
    images=image,
    text="<image>\n<|grounding|>Convert the document to markdown.",
    return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

generate_ids = model.generate(**inputs, do_sample=False, max_new_tokens=256)
processor.decode(generate_ids[0, inputs["input_ids"].shape[1] :], skip_special_tokens=False)
# "<|ref|>title<|/ref|><|det|>[[330, 198, 558, 230]]<|/det|>\n# R&D QUALITY (...)"
```

## DeepseekOcr2Config

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2Config

## DeepseekOcr2VisionConfig

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2VisionConfig

## DeepseekOcr2SamVisionConfig

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2SamVisionConfig

## DeepseekOcr2VisionEncoderConfig

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2VisionEncoderConfig

## DeepseekOcr2TextConfig

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2TextConfig

## DeepseekOcr2ImageProcessor

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2ImageProcessor

## DeepseekOcr2ImageProcessorPil

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2ImageProcessorPil

## DeepseekOcr2Processor

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2Processor

## DeepseekOcr2TextModel

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2TextModel

## DeepseekOcr2VisionModel

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2VisionModel

## DeepseekOcr2Model

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2Model

## DeepseekOcr2ForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] DeepseekOcr2ForConditionalGeneration
