bytedance/Dolphin

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9049 stars · 776 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Dolphin is ByteDance's open-source document image parsing model that converts document images and PDFs into structured content using a two-stage layout-analysis and element-parsing architecture. It handles text, tables, formulas, figures, and code blocks in both digital-born and photographed documents.

Use cases

• parse scanned pdf documents into structured text
• extract tables and formulas from document images
• convert photographed documents to markdown
• analyze document layout and reading order
• ocr for complex document pages
• batch convert pdfs to structured data

When to choose

• you need structured parsing of mixed document elements like tables, formulas, and figures
• you want a lightweight model with parallel element-wise parsing for efficiency
• you need to handle both digital and photographed documents

When to avoid

• you only need plain OCR text extraction without layout structure
• you cannot run GPU inference for the vision-language model
• you need a fully permissive license (license is not standard MIT-verified)

Facets

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ocr parser pdf machine-learning computer-vision nlp pdf computer-vision artificial-intelligence files python cross-platform document-parsing layout-analysis vision-language-model pdf-converter table-recognition formula-recognition natural-language-processing gpu

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