📖 Overview
Next OCR 8B is an 8-billion parameter model optimized for optical character recognition (OCR) tasks with mathematical and tabular content understanding.
Supports multilingual OCR (Turkish, English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian...) with high accuracy, including structured documents like tables, forms, and formulas.
⚡ Highlights
- 🖼️ Accurate text extraction, including math and tables
- 🌍 Multilingual support (30+ languages)
- ⚡ Lightweight and efficient
- 💬 Instruction-tuned for document understanding and analysis
📊 Benchmark & Comparison

Table with columns: Model, OCR-Bench Accuracy (%), Multilingual Accuracy (%), Layout / Table Understanding (%)| Model | OCR-Bench Accuracy (%) | Multilingual Accuracy (%) | Layout / Table Understanding (%) |
|---|
| Next OCR | 99.0 | 96.8 | 95.3 |
| PaddleOCR | 95.2 | 93.9 | 95.3 |
| Deepseek OCR | 90.6 | 87.4 | 86.1 |
| Tesseract | 92.0 | 88.4 | 72.0 |
| EasyOCR | 90.4 | 84.7 | 78.9 |
| Google Cloud Vision / DocAI | 98.7 |
Table with columns: Model, Handwriting (%), Scene Text (%), Complex Tables (%)| Model | Handwriting (%) | Scene Text (%) | Complex Tables (%) |
|---|
| Next OCR | 92 | 96 | 91 |
| PaddleOCR | 88 | 92 | 90 |
| Deepseek OCR | 80 | 85 | 83 |
| Tesseract | 75 | 88 | 70 |
🚀 Installation & Usage
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForVision2Seq
import torch
model_id = "Lamapi/next-ocr"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
img = Image.open("image.jpg")
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are Next-OCR, an helpful AI assistant trained by Lamapi."},
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "image": img},
{"type": "text", "text": "Read the text in this image and summarize it."}
]
}
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = processor(text=prompt, images=[img], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
with torch.no_grad():
generated = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(processor.decode(generated[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
🧩 Key Features
Table with columns: Feature, Description| Feature | Description |
|---|
| 🖼️ High-Accuracy OCR | Extracts text from images, documents, and screenshots reliably. |
| 🇹🇷 Multilingual Support | Works with 30+ languages including Turkish. |
| ⚡ Lightweight & Efficient | Optimized for resource-constrained environments. |
| 📄 Layout & Math Awareness | Handles tables, forms, and mathematical formulas. |
| 🏢 Reliable Outputs | Suitable for enterprise document workflows. |
📐 Model Specifications
Table with columns: Specification, Details| Specification | Details |
|---|
| Base Model | Qwen 3 |
| Parameters | 8 Billion |
| Architecture | Vision + Transformer (OCR LLM) |
| Modalities | Image-to-text |
| Fine-Tuning | OCR datasets with multilingual and math/tabular content |
| Optimizations | Quantization-ready, FP16 support |
| Primary Focus | Text extraction, document understanding, mathematical OCR |
🎯 Ideal Use Cases
- Document digitization
- Invoice & receipt processing
- Multilingual OCR pipelines
- Tables, forms, and formulas extraction
- Enterprise document management
📄 License
MIT License — free for commercial & non-commercial use.
Next OCR — Compact OCR + math-capable AI, blending accuracy, speed, and multilingual document intelligence.
