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PP-OCRv6 on Hugging Face: 50-Language OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters

Hugging Face · Hugging Face Blog · Jun 22, 2026 · Product Launches

Hugging Face released PP-OCRv6, a 50-language OCR model family ranging from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters.

Hugging Face published PP-OCRv6, an open OCR model family supporting 50 languages with parameter counts from 1.5M to 34.5M, emphasizing lightweight efficiency. It matters as a continued signal of capable, small, multilingual OCR models becoming freely available, though it is an incremental release rather than a major industry shift.

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