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# Donut

## Overview

The Donut model was proposed in [OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15664) by
Geewook Kim, Teakgyu Hong, Moonbin Yim, Jeongyeon Nam, Jinyoung Park, Jinyeong Yim, Wonseok Hwang, Sangdoo Yun, Dongyoon Han, Seunghyun Park.
Donut consists of an image Transformer encoder and an autoregressive text Transformer decoder to perform document understanding
tasks such as document image classification, form understanding and visual question answering.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*Understanding document images (e.g., invoices) is a core but challenging task since it requires complex functions such as reading text and a holistic understanding of the document. Current Visual Document Understanding (VDU) methods outsource the task of reading text to off-the-shelf Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines and focus on the understanding task with the OCR outputs. Although such OCR-based approaches have shown promising performance, they suffer from 1) high computational costs for using OCR; 2) inflexibility of OCR models on languages or types of document; 3) OCR error propagation to the subsequent process. To address these issues, in this paper, we introduce a novel OCR-free VDU model named Donut, which stands for Document understanding transformer. As the first step in OCR-free VDU research, we propose a simple architecture (i.e., Transformer) with a pre-training objective (i.e., cross-entropy loss). Donut is conceptually simple yet effective. Through extensive experiments and analyses, we show a simple OCR-free VDU model, Donut, achieves state-of-the-art performances on various VDU tasks in terms of both speed and accuracy. In addition, we offer a synthetic data generator that helps the model pre-training to be flexible in various languages and domains.*

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/model_doc/donut_architecture.jpg"
alt="drawing" width="600"/>
<div style="float: right;">
<div class="flex flex-wrap space-x-1">
<img alt="PyTorch" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-DE3412?style=flat&logo=pytorch&logoColor=white">
</div>
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<small> Donut high-level overview. Taken from the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15664">original paper</a>. </small>

This model was contributed by [nielsr](https://huggingface.co/nielsr). The original code can be found
[here](https://github.com/clovaai/donut).
# Donut

## Usage tips
[Donut (Document Understanding Transformer)](https://huggingface.co/papers2111.15664) 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.

- The quickest way to get started with Donut is by checking the [tutorial
notebooks](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/tree/master/Donut), which show how to use the model
at inference time as well as fine-tuning on custom data.
- Donut is always used within the [VisionEncoderDecoder](vision-encoder-decoder) framework.
Donut features vision encoder ([Swin](./swin)) and a text decoder ([BART](./bart)). Swin converts document images into embeddings and BART processes them into meaningful text sequences.

## Inference examples
You can find all the original Donut checkpoints under the [Naver Clova Information Extraction](https://huggingface.co/naver-clova-ix) organization.

Donut's [`VisionEncoderDecoder`] model accepts images as input and makes use of
[`~generation.GenerationMixin.generate`] to autoregressively generate text given the input image.
> [!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 [`DonutImageProcessor`] class is responsible for preprocessing the input image and
[`XLMRobertaTokenizer`/`XLMRobertaTokenizerFast`] decodes the generated target tokens to the target string. The
[`DonutProcessor`] wraps [`DonutImageProcessor`] and [`XLMRobertaTokenizer`/`XLMRobertaTokenizerFast`]
into a single instance to both extract the input features and decode the predicted token ids.
The examples below demonstrate how to perform document understanding tasks using Donut with [`Pipeline`] and [`AutoModel`]

- Step-by-step Document Image Classification
<hfoptions id="usage">
<hfoption id="Pipeline">

```py
>>> 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'}
# pip install datasets
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image

pipeline = pipeline(
task="document-question-answering",
model="naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa",
device=0,
torch_dtype=torch.float16
)
dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
image = dataset[0]["image"]

pipeline(image=image, question="What time is the coffee break?")
```

- Step-by-step Document Parsing
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="AutoModel">

```py
>>> 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'}}
# pip install datasets
import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForVision2Seq

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")

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)
```

- Step-by-step Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA)
</hfoption>
</hfoptions>

```py
>>> import re

>>> from transformers import DonutProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel
>>> from datasets import load_dataset
>>> import torch

>>> processor = DonutProcessor.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")
>>> model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("naver-clova-ix/donut-base-finetuned-docvqa")

>>> device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
>>> model.to(device) # doctest: +IGNORE_RESULT

>>> # load document image from the DocVQA dataset
>>> dataset = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/example-documents", split="test")
>>> image = dataset[0]["image"]

>>> # prepare decoder inputs
>>> task_prompt = "<s_docvqa><s_question>{user_input}</s_question><s_answer>"
>>> question = "When is the coffee break?"
>>> prompt = task_prompt.replace("{user_input}", question)
>>> decoder_input_ids = processor.tokenizer(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))
{'question': 'When is the coffee break?', 'answer': '11-14 to 11:39 a.m.'}
```
Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the [Quantization](../quantization/overview) overview for more available quantization backends.

See the [model hub](https://huggingface.co/models?filter=donut) to look for Donut checkpoints.
The example below uses [torchao](../quantization/torchao) to only quantize the weights to int4.

## Training
```py
# 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)
```

We refer to the [tutorial notebooks](https://github.com/NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials/tree/master/Donut).
## Notes

- Use Donut for document image classification as shown below.

```py
>>> 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.

```py
>>> 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'}}
```

## DonutSwinConfig

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