Perplexity's pplx-embed-v2-late retrieves PDFs and screenshots as images, no OCR needed
tomaarsen · x · 2026-10-08
Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late in 0.6B and 9B sizes for text and image retrieval, natively supported in Sentence Transformers. The highlight: search document pages like PDFs, slide decks, screenshots and charts as images, without any OCR. Both models are publicly available on Hugging Face, alongside a Perplexity blog post.
Related event: Perplexity Open-Sources Multimodal Embedding Models pplx-embed-v2-late(38 posts)→
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