Technology

The Baidu Qianfan Team introduced Qianfan-OCR, a 4B-parameter end-to-end model designed to unify document parsing, layout analysis, and document understanding within a single vision-language architecture. Unlike traditional multi-stage OCR pipelines that chain separate modules for layout detection and text recognition, Qianfan-OCR performs direct image-to-Markdown conversion and supports prompt-driven tasks like table extraction and document question