PaddleOCR-VL 1.6

• textIgnored

  A text part beside the media is accepted and ignored. A request with no media part is a 400.

• image_urlYes

  One per request. A second image_url part is a 400.

• video_urlNo

  Not accepted.

• document_urlYes

  One PDF, up to 128 pages, rasterized per page at document_dpi (default 96). See Document Inputs.

• Default method markdown. All five methods return a text payload; only the subject differs, so table, formula, and chart read a page's tables, equations, and charts rather than its prose.
• Context window 16,384 tokens.
• Aliases: paddleocr-vl-1.6, PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.6, and the 1.5-era ids paddlepaddle/paddleocr-vl, paddleocr-vl, PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL.
• Weights: PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL-1.6.

Every method on this model uses the shared contract on Methods & Response Format: <document> / <page id= format= width= height=> in text mode, and the flat reply with top-level model, method and the input's details in JSON mode. The method decides the payload, not the shape.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai",
    api_key="<VLMRUN_API_KEY>",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="paddlepaddle/paddleocr-vl-1.6",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {
                    "type": "image_url",
                    "image_url": {
                        "url": "https://storage.googleapis.com/vlm-data-public-prod/hub/examples/document.receipt/playground/2.jpg"
                    },
                },
            ],
        }
    ],
    extra_body={"method": "table"},
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Swap image_url for a document_url PDF to read every page with the same method; markdown is used when method is omitted.

Both tabs below show method: "table", the method the request above uses. Every method on this model follows the same shared contract, so swapping in markdown (or omitting method) changes the payload, not its shape.