# Baidu — PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model

- Company: Baidu (baidu.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: ERNIE
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: PaddleOCR-VL, PaddleOCR-VL-0.9B
- License: Apache License 2.0
- Source: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/paddleocr-vl/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4652-paddleocr-vl-boosting-multilingual-document-parsing-via-a-0-9b-ultra-compact

Baidu releases PaddleOCR-VL, a compact vision-language model for document parsing with SOTA performance, multilingual support for 109 languages, and Apache 2.0 license.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/paddleocr-vl/:

> We are excited to release PaddleOCR-VL, a SOTA and resource-efficient model tailored for document parsing.

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