Computer Vision

PaddleOCR-VL-1.5: Towards a Multi-Task 0.9B VLM for Robust In-the-Wild Document Parsing

CCheng CuiTTing SunSSuyin LiangTTingquan GaoZZelun ZhangJJiaxuan LiuXXueqing WangCChangda ZhouHHongen LiuMManhui LinYYue ZhangYYubo ZhangYYi LiuDDianhai YuYYanjun Ma
Published
January 29, 2026
Authors
15
Word Count
11,324

Robust document parsing for real-world, distorted documents.

Abstract

We introduce PaddleOCR-VL-1.5, an upgraded model achieving a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) accuracy of 94.5% on OmniDocBench v1.5. To rigorously evaluate robustness against real-world physical distortions, including scanning, skew, warping, screen-photography, and illumination, we propose the Real5-OmniDocBench benchmark. Experimental results demonstrate that this enhanced model attains SOTA performance on the newly curated benchmark. Furthermore, we extend the model's capabilities by incorporating seal recognition and text spotting tasks, while remaining a 0.9B ultra-compact VLM with high efficiency. Code: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Key Takeaways

  • 1

    Handles complex, real-world document distortions effectively.

  • 2

    Introduces new tasks like seal recognition and text spotting.

  • 3

    Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on benchmark tests.

Limitations

  • Relies on high-quality annotations for training.

  • Extreme distortions may still pose challenges.

Keywords

Vision-Language ModelOmniDocBenchReal5-OmniDocBenchseal recognitiontext spotting

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