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

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend Team Article Published May 18, 2026 Upvote 41 AlexZhang AlexTransformer PaddlePaddle cuicheng ChengCui PaddlePaddle Jun Zhang jzhang533 PaddlePaddle Manhui Lin gggdddfff PaddlePaddle Yue Zhang xiaohei66 PaddlePaddle 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" PaddleOCR continues to provide OCR model series such as PP-OCRv5 and document parsing model series such as PaddleOCR-VL 1.5 , while Transformers becomes one of the supported backends for running them.

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• PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend Team Article Published May 18, 2026 Upvote 41 AlexZhang AlexTransformer PaddlePaddle cuicheng ChengCui PaddlePaddle Jun Zhang jzhang533 PaddlePaddle Manhui Lin gggdddfff PaddlePaddle Yue Zhang xiaohei66 PaddlePaddle 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" PaddleOCR continues to provide OCR model series such as PP-OCRv5 and document parsing model series such as PaddleOCR-VL 1.5 , while Transformers becomes one of the supported backends for running them.
• Try the live demo on Hugging Face Spaces: https://huggingface.co/spaces/PaddlePaddle/paddleocr-3.5-transformers-demo What changed?
• PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces a more flexible inference-engine interface.
• Developers can select the backend through the engine parameter and pass backend-specific options through engine_config .
• In practice, this means: The pipelines behind these tasks are managed by PaddleOCR, so developers do not need to manually call each internal component.