PaddleOCR-VL is the OmniDocBench leader (multilingual) but its transformers integration is a version swamp; revisit via vLLM (OpenAI API, fits our runner pattern) or the official PaddlePaddle pipeline. Also evaluate FireRed OCR. See docs/experiments/2026-06-26-paddleocr-vl-deferred.md.
PaddleOCR-VL is the OmniDocBench leader (multilingual) but its transformers integration is a version swamp; revisit via vLLM (OpenAI API, fits our runner pattern) or the official PaddlePaddle pipeline. Also evaluate FireRed OCR. See docs/experiments/2026-06-26-paddleocr-vl-deferred.md.