Donut

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.

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

Pipeline

AutoModel

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
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import TorchAoConfig, AutoProcessor, AutoModelForVision2Seq

quantization_config = TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa", quantization_config=quantization_config)

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")

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)

Notes

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 = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
>>> model.to(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").input_ids

>>> pixel_values = processor(image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values

>>> outputs = model.generate(
...     pixel_values.to(device),
...     decoder_input_ids=decoder_input_ids.to(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 transformers import DonutProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel
>>> from datasets import load_dataset
>>> 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 = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
>>> model.to(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").input_ids

>>> pixel_values = processor(image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values

>>> outputs = model.generate(
...     pixel_values.to(device),
...     decoder_input_ids=decoder_input_ids.to(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'}}

Transformers

Donut

Notes

DonutSwinConfig

class transformers.DonutSwinConfig

DonutImageProcessor

class transformers.DonutImageProcessor

preprocess

DonutImageProcessorFast

class transformers.DonutImageProcessorFast

preprocess

DonutFeatureExtractor

class transformers.DonutFeatureExtractor

__call__

DonutProcessor

class transformers.DonutProcessor

__call__

from_pretrained

save_pretrained

batch_decode

decode

DonutSwinModel

class transformers.DonutSwinModel

forward

DonutSwinForImageClassification

class transformers.DonutSwinForImageClassification

forward

call

call