DeepSeek AI has made DeepSeek-OCR-2 available, an open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model. The announcement was shared on the Reddit platform, with direct links to the model's page on Hugging Face.

This release could represent an opportunity to develop custom OCR applications, executable locally or in environments with specific data privacy and security requirements. OCR is a fundamental technology for digitizing documents, automating information extraction from images, and improving the accessibility of visual content.

The availability of an open-source model like DeepSeek-OCR-2 allows technical staff to analyze, modify, and adapt the model to their needs, without relying on proprietary cloud services. For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs that AI-RADAR analyzes in detail in the /llm-onpremise section.