# Bad Influence story: Docling v2.149.0 adds MiniCPM-OCR preset for PDF processing

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 20:40. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/03ca0822-18cb-4ada-8e2e-b4e2c5b0fbdf

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Latest update (11-09 20:40): Docling v2.149.0 adds MiniCPM-OCR preset for PDF processing

Overview: Docling v2.149.0 adds a minicpm_ocr preset for OpenBMB's 1.3B MiniCPM-OCR model, which handles English and Chinese text, according to OpenBMB. Users can run it on one consumer GPU with the command docling doc.pdf --pipeline vlm --vlm-model minicpm_ocr.

The release also adds an opt-in --use-embedded-picture-images flag and ASR support on mlx-audio. It fixes the --vlm-model flag so that it switches to the VLM pipeline.

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1. 11-09 20:40 · OpenBMB · [Docling v2.149.0 adds MiniCPM-OCR preset for PDF processing](https://badinfluence.news/items/b37q7dhgzqi89cgjnc2pwtuwc)
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