Xiaomi open-sources 0.8B OCR model Xiaomi-OCR-0
A sub-1B model reaching near-top OmniDocBench scores means document parsing and invoice extraction can now run on modest hardware rather than large multimodal models. Teams building document pipelines can deploy it locally, pull weights from Hugging Face or GitHub, and use the JSON and Markdown outputs directly in automation workflows. Against rivals like PaddleOCR's larger document models, it trades scale for efficiency while matching them on benchmarks.