Hugging Face· PlatformCapability change

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces a Transformers inference backend, allowing supported OCR and document parsing models to run with Hugging Face Transformers, reducing integration friction for RAG and Document AI workflows.

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PaddleOCR 3.5 brings OCR and document parsing tasks closer to the Hugging Face ecosystem. With this release, supported PaddleOCR models can run with Hugging Face Transformers as an inference backend by setting: engine="transformers"

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Announced

18 May 2026 15:12 UTC

Detected

03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+77d after)