Baidu Proposes New Method for Long-Document OCR
burkov · x · 2026-07-12
This new paper from Baidu introduces Unlimited OCR, utilizing Reference Sliding Window Attention (R-SWA) to transcribe long documents in a single pass.
The core idea combines the highly compressed encoder of DeepSeek OCR with Baidu's own constant KV cache design, enabling the processing of dozens of pages in a single forward pass, even under the standard 32K context limit.
The authors also emphasize that R-SWA is not limited to OCR; it serves as a general-purpose parsing attention mechanism extensible to:
- ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition)
- Translation
- Other long-context parsing tasks
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