# Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models

DevFeed: [Supercharge your OCR Pipelines with Open Models](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/supercharge-your-ocr-pipelines-with-open-models-7406.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/ocr-open-models>)

Author: merve; Aritra Roy Gosthipaty; Daniel van Strien; Hynek Kydlicek; Andres Marafioti; Vaibhav Srivastav; Pedro Cuenca

Published: 2025-10-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [document ai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/document-ai.md>), [Computer vision](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-vision.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fine-tuning.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [computer-vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-vision.md>), [document-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/document-ai.md>), [fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fine-tuning.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [ocr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ocr.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pipelines.md>), [qa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qa.md>), [retrieval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrieval.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlm.md>)

## AI overview

This guide surveys open-weight OCR and vision-language models for document AI. It explains their capabilities, output formats, multimodal document retrieval, document question answering, and the tradeoffs between fine-tuning and using models out of the box.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.