Instructions to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", trust_remote_code=True, dtype="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr

SGLang

How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use rednote-hilab/dots.ocr with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr
```

Markdown genration

#36

by anhdo10ntq - opened Oct 16, 2025

Discussion

anhdo10ntq

Oct 16, 2025

I want to know how the model extract markdown for OCR. does it based on the json like (bounding box, context,...) then use LLM to generate the markdown.

borisevstratov

Oct 20, 2025

I want to know how the model extract markdown for OCR. does it based on the json like (bounding box, context,...) then use LLM to generate the markdown.

It just serializes the output JSON into markdown

It sorts the segments in reading order (top-to-bottom, left-to-right)
Formats the text according to its category
Skips page footers and page headers (optionally)

Basically, you can write down your own markdown serializer

Sources:
https://github.com/rednote-hilab/dots.ocr/blob/master/dots_ocr/utils/format_transformer.py#L145
https://huggingface.co/spaces/MohamedRashad/Dots-OCR/blob/main/app.py#L240

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