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PP-DocBlockLayout

LLMs PaddlePaddle Image→text 1 build Open weights 4k dl/mo

PP-DocBlockLayout is an open-weight language model from Baidu.

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  • PP-DocBlockLayout is an image-to-text layout block localization model developed by Baidu and published as PaddlePaddle/PP-DocBlockLayout.
  • It is designed to detect document regions in Chinese and English papers, multi-layout magazines, contracts, books, exams, ancient books, and research reports.
  • The model uses the RT-DETR-L architecture, achieves an mAP(0.5) of 95.9% on a self-built evaluation set, and is available under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the PaddlePaddle/PP-DocBlockLayout model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byBaidu
Released2025-06-06

From the model card

What Baidu says about PP-DocBlockLayout

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Introduction

A layout block localization model trained on a self-built dataset containing Chinese and English papers, PPT, multi-layout magazines, contracts, books, exams, ancient books and research reports using RT-DETR-L. The layout detection model includes 1 category: Region.

ModelmAP(0.5) (%)
PP-DocBlockLayout95.9

Note: the evaluation set of the above precision indicators is the self built version sub area detection data set, including Chinese and English papers, magazines, newspapers, research reports PPT、 1000 document type pictures such as test papers and textbooks.

Quick Start

Installation

  1. PaddlePaddle

Please refer to the following commands to install PaddlePaddle using pip:

# for CUDA11.8
python -m pip install paddlepaddle-gpu==3.0.0 -i https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/packages/stable/cu118/

# for CUDA12.6
python -m pip install paddlepaddle-gpu==3.0.0 -i https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/packages/stable/cu126/

# for CPU
python -m pip install paddlepaddle==3.0.0 -i https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/packages/stable/cpu/

For details about PaddlePaddle installation, please refer to the PaddlePaddle official website.

  1. PaddleOCR

Install the latest version of the PaddleOCR inference package from PyPI:

python -m pip install paddleocr

Model Usage

You can quickly experience the functionality with a single command:

paddleocr layout_detection --model_name PP-DocBlockLayout -i https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/63d7b8ee07cd1aa3c49a2026/SCL4KLVcaUKkinua_bTec.png

You can also integrate the model inference of the LayoutDetection module into your project. Before running the following code, please download the sample image to your local machine.

from paddleocr import LayoutDetection

model = LayoutDetection(model_name="PP-DocBlockLayout")
output = model.predict("SCL4KLVcaUKkinua_bTec.png", batch_size=1, layout_nms=True)
for res in output:
    res.print()
    res.save_to_img(save_path="./output/")
    res.save_to_json(save_path="./output/res.json")

After running, the obtained result is as follows:

{'res': {'input_path': '/root/.paddlex/predict_input/SCL4KLVcaUKkinua_bTec.png', 'page_index': None, 'boxes': [{'cls_id': 0, 'label': 'Region', 'score': 0.9768685698509216, 'coordinate': [31.313992, 298.04843, 479.92798, 1994.14]}, {'cls_id': 0, 'label': 'Region', 'score': 0.9728955626487732, 'coordinate': [648.478, 1233.5554, 1552.8765, 1992.712]}, {'cls_id': 0, 'label': 'Region', 'score': 0.9725626707077026, 'coordinate': [647.51337, 295.63956, 1550.7095, 1181.5878]}, {'cls_id': 0, 'label': 'Region', 'score': 0.9079533219337463, 'coordinate': [644.75916, 59.31064, 1468.8861, 264.68124]}, {'cls_id': 0, 'label': 'Region', 'score': 0.8413463234901428, 'coordinate': [31.890125, 60.103912, 470.73123, 284.72952]}]}}

The visualized image is as follows:

For details about usage command and descriptions of parameters, please refer to the Document.

Links

PaddleOCR Repo

PaddleOCR Documentation

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.
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