Baidu's Unlimited-OCR pulls 2.2M downloads in a month
baidu/Unlimited-OCR has racked up roughly 2.24M downloads over 30 days on Hugging Face, one of the highest download counts among trending models. OCR remains a workhorse for document pipelines and RAG ingestion, and a high-volume openly available model is a practical building block. If you're parsing scanned docs or PDFs, it's worth benchmarking against your current stack.