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donut

LLMs naver-clova-ix Image→text 1 build Open weights 54k dl/mo

donut is an open-weight language model from naver-clova-ix. donut-base (BF16) weighs 809 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Donut is an image-to-text model developed by naver-clova-ix and released as naver-clova-ix/donut-base under the MIT license.
  • It features a Swin Transformer vision encoder and a BART text decoder to process document images without OCR.
  • The model is intended to be fine-tuned for downstream tasks such as document image classification or parsing.

Summary of the naver-clova-ix/donut-base model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bynaver-clova-ix
Released2022-07-19
VRAM809 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for donut-base (BF16)

809 MBweights, file size
762 MBruntime overhead, at least

How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.

CardWeights alone
RTX 3060 12 GBfits
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits
RTX 3090 24 GBfits
RTX 4090 24 GBfits
RTX 5090 32 GBfits
L40S 48 GBfits
A100 80 GBfits
H100 80 GBfits
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits
H200 141 GBfits
B200 180 GBfits

From the model card

What naver-clova-ix says about donut

Read the model card

Donut model pre-trained-only. It was introduced in the paper OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer by Geewok et al. and first released in this repository.

Disclaimer: The team releasing Donut did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.

Model description

Donut consists of a vision encoder (Swin Transformer) and a text decoder (BART). Given an image, the encoder first encodes the image into a tensor of embeddings (of shape batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size), after which the decoder autoregressively generates text, conditioned on the encoding of the encoder.

Intended uses & limitations

This model is meant to be fine-tuned on a downstream task, like document image classification or document parsing. See the model hub to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you.

How to use

We refer to the documentation which includes code examples.

BibTeX entry and citation info

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-2111-15664,
  author    = {Geewook Kim and
               Teakgyu Hong and
               Moonbin Yim and
               Jinyoung Park and
               Jinyeong Yim and
               Wonseok Hwang and
               Sangdoo Yun and
               Dongyoon Han and
               Seunghyun Park},
  title     = {Donut: Document Understanding Transformer without {OCR}},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/2111.15664},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15664},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {2111.15664},
  timestamp = {Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:50:44 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-2111-15664.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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