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Jan 30, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

PaddleOCR‑VL‑1.5: 0.9B Model Beats Billion‑Parameter OCR Models with 94.5% Accuracy

PaddleOCR‑VL‑1.5, the latest Baidu release, uses only 0.9 B parameters to achieve 94.5% accuracy on OmniDocBench v1.5, surpassing larger open‑source and commercial OCR models, while offering multi‑task, multi‑language support, lightweight deployment, and detailed performance benchmarks.