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PP-OCRv5: A Specialized 5M-Parameter Model Rivaling Billion-Parameter Vision-Language Models on OCR Tasks

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Source paper: PP-OCRv5: A Specialized 5M-Parameter Model Rivaling Billion-Parameter Vision-Language Models on OCR Tasks

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24373v1

Repository: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

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Last proof check: 2026-03-26T20:30:34.421523+00:00

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