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MonkeyOCR-pro 1.2B

Name: MonkeyOCR-pro 1.2B
Author: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Huazhong University of Science and Technology · released 2025-07-10 · data checked 2026-11-06

MonkeyOCR-pro 1.2B is a 1.2B-parameter OCR and document-parsing model from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN), released 2025-07-10 under the Non-commercial license. It scores 71.8 on olmOCR-Bench (#21 of 24). It needs about 3.4 GB of memory at 16-bit.

Smaller, faster version of MonkeyOCR-pro 3B. Reports OmniDocBench edit distances but no overall score.

OmniDocBench v1.6

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Not reported

olmOCR-Bench

71.8

#21 of 24 models

Parameters

1.2B

OCR specialist

Memory to run

~3.4 GB

16-bit weights plus about 1 GB

Benchmarks

olmOCR-Bench Lab-reported71.8

Best: OXR 1.0 87.8

The tick marks the best score on each benchmark. See how to read the ranking.

Specifications

Lab: Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
Type: OCR / document parsing specialist
Total parameters: 1.2B
License: Non-commercial
The card shows an Apache 2.0 badge but says the model is for academic research and non-commercial use only.
Memory to run: ~3.4 GB at 16-bit
Released: 2025-07-10

Weights and usage on Hugging Face ↗

Closest alternatives

FireRed-OCR (2.1B, 70.2 on olmOCR-Bench, Apache-2.0)
Nanonets-OCR2 3B (3.8B, 69.5 on olmOCR-Bench, Not stated)
GLM-OCR (1.3B, 75.2 on olmOCR-Bench, MIT)
MinerU2.5 (2509) (1.2B, 75.2 on olmOCR-Bench, AGPL-3.0)

Sources

https://huggingface.co/echo840/MonkeyOCR-pro-1.2B

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