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DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression research paper by DeepSeek, 2025

DeepSeek · Oct 21, 2025 · Inference and efficiency · 189 citations · 95 upvotes · unverified

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DeepSeek-OCR uses optical 2D mapping to compress long contexts, achieving high OCR precision with reduced vision tokens and demonstrating practical value in document processing.

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About this paper
Authors
Haoran Wei, Yaofeng Sun, Yukun Li
arXiv
2510.18234 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
189, 20 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
95 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR
Lab
DeepSeek · on Companies

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Influential citationsfirst count: 20Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 189Sep 25, 2026
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