# Hugging Face — PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-05-18T15:12:46+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: PP-OCRv5, PaddleOCR-VL 1.5, PaddleOCR-VL-1.5
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/PaddlePaddle/paddleocr-transformers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1502-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/PaddlePaddle/paddleocr-transformers:

> 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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