PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces Transformers as an inference backend for OCR and document parsing models.

• •Developers can select backends through the engine parameter and configure backend-specific options via engine_config
• •Transformers backend enables integration with Hugging Face stacks for Document AI, RAG, and agent applications
• •Supported models include PP-OCRv5 for OCR and PaddleOCR-VL 1.5 for document parsing
• •Configuration options available for dtype, device placement, and attention implementation

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