docs/source/en/model_doc/donut.md
This model was released on 2021-11-30 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2022-08-12.
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Donut (Document Understanding Transformer) is a visual document understanding model that doesn't require an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine. Unlike traditional approaches that extract text using OCR before processing, Donut employs an end-to-end Transformer-based architecture to directly analyze document images. This eliminates OCR-related inefficiencies making it more accurate and adaptable to diverse languages and formats.
Donut features vision encoder (Swin) and a text decoder (BART). Swin converts document images into embeddings and BART processes them into meaningful text sequences.
You can find all the original Donut checkpoints under the Naver Clova Information Extraction organization.
[!TIP] Click on the Donut models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply Donut to different language and vision tasks.
The examples below demonstrate how to perform document understanding tasks using Donut with [Pipeline] and [AutoModel]
# pip install datasets
from transformers import pipeline
pipeline = pipeline(
task="document-question-answering",
model="naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa",
device=0,
)
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
image = dataset[0]["image"]
pipeline(image=image, question="What time is the coffee break?")
# pip install datasets
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa", device_map="auto")
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
image = dataset[0]["image"]
question = "What time is the coffee break?"
task_prompt = f"<s_docvqa><s_question>{question}</s_question><s_answer>"
inputs = processor(image, task_prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(
input_ids=inputs.input_ids,
pixel_values=inputs.pixel_values,
max_length=512
)
answer = processor.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(answer)
Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the Quantization overview for more available quantization backends.
The example below uses torchao to only quantize the weights to int4.
# pip install datasets torchao
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor, TorchAoConfig
quantization_config = TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa", quantization_config=quantization_config, device_map="auto")
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
image = dataset[0]["image"]
question = "What time is the coffee break?"
task_prompt = f"<s_docvqa><s_question>{question}</s_question><s_answer>"
inputs = processor(image, task_prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(
input_ids=inputs.input_ids,
pixel_values=inputs.pixel_values,
max_length=512
)
answer = processor.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(answer)
Use Donut for document image classification as shown below.
import re
from transformers import DonutProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel
from datasets import load_dataset
import torch
processor = DonutProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-rvlcdip")
model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-rvlcdip", device_map="auto")
model.to(model.device) # doctest: +IGNORE_RESULT
# load document image
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
image = dataset[1]["image"]
# prepare decoder inputs
task_prompt = "<s_rvlcdip>"
decoder_input_ids = processor.tokenizer(task_prompt, add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device).input_ids
pixel_values = processor(image, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device).pixel_values
outputs = model.generate(
pixel_values.to(model.device),
decoder_input_ids=decoder_input_ids.to(model.device),
max_length=model.decoder.config.max_position_embeddings,
pad_token_id=processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id,
eos_token_id=processor.tokenizer.eos_token_id,
use_cache=True,
bad_words_ids=[[processor.tokenizer.unk_token_id]],
return_dict_in_generate=True,
)
sequence = processor.batch_decode(outputs.sequences)[0]
sequence = sequence.replace(processor.tokenizer.eos_token, "").replace(processor.tokenizer.pad_token, "")
sequence = re.sub(r"<.*?>", "", sequence, count=1).strip() # remove first task start token
print(processor.token2json(sequence))
{'class': 'advertisement'}
Use Donut for document parsing as shown below.
import re
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import DonutProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel
import torch
processor = DonutProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-cord-v2")
model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-cord-v2", device_map="auto")
model.to(model.device) # doctest: +IGNORE_RESULT
# load document image
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
image = dataset[2]["image"]
# prepare decoder inputs
task_prompt = "<s_cord-v2>"
decoder_input_ids = processor.tokenizer(task_prompt, add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device).input_ids
pixel_values = processor(image, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device).pixel_values
outputs = model.generate(
pixel_values.to(model.device),
decoder_input_ids=decoder_input_ids.to(model.device),
max_length=model.decoder.config.max_position_embeddings,
pad_token_id=processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id,
eos_token_id=processor.tokenizer.eos_token_id,
use_cache=True,
bad_words_ids=[[processor.tokenizer.unk_token_id]],
return_dict_in_generate=True,
)
sequence = processor.batch_decode(outputs.sequences)[0]
sequence = sequence.replace(processor.tokenizer.eos_token, "").replace(processor.tokenizer.pad_token, "")
sequence = re.sub(r"<.*?>", "", sequence, count=1).strip() # remove first task start token
print(processor.token2json(sequence))
{'menu': {'nm': 'CINNAMON SUGAR', 'unitprice': '17,000', 'cnt': '1 x', 'price': '17,000'}, 'sub_total': {'subtotal_price': '17,000'}, 'total':
{'total_price': '17,000', 'cashprice': '20,000', 'changeprice': '3,000'}}
[[autodoc]] DonutSwinConfig
[[autodoc]] DonutImageProcessor - preprocess
[[autodoc]] DonutImageProcessorPil - preprocess
[[autodoc]] DonutProcessor - call - from_pretrained - save_pretrained - batch_decode - decode
[[autodoc]] DonutSwinModel - forward
[[autodoc]] transformers.DonutSwinForImageClassification - forward