---
language:
- en
- zh
tags:
- mlx
- object-detection
- document-layout
- reading-order
library_name: mlx-vlm
pipeline_tag: object-detection
license: apache-2.0
base_model: PaddlePaddle/PP-DocLayoutV3_safetensors
---

# PP-DocLayout V3 (MLX)

MLX conversion of [PaddlePaddle/PP-DocLayoutV3_safetensors](https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PP-DocLayoutV3_safetensors)
for document-layout detection on Apple Silicon. It predicts page regions,
class labels, and reading order; it does not transcribe text.

- **Architecture:** HGNetV2-L backbone, hybrid encoder, and deformable decoder
  with a reading-order head.
- **Classes:** 25 prediction classes from the stock checkpoint.
- **Weights:** about 33M parameters, float32, 133 MB, not quantized.

## Usage

Use an [mlx-vlm](https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm) checkout that includes
`pp_doclayout_v3` support. From that checkout:

```sh
python -m pip install -e .
```

Replace `page.png` with a document image:

```python
from mlx_vlm.utils import get_model_path, load_model

model = load_model(get_model_path("HashNuke/pp-doclayout-v3-mlx"))
model.eval()
records = model.detect("page.png", conf=0.5)
for record in sorted(records, key=lambda item: item["reading_order"]):
    print(record)
```

`get_model_path` downloads the checkpoint and returns a local path for
`load_model`. `detect` accepts an image path or a PIL image.

## Output format

Each detection contains:

- `bbox`: `[y0, x0, y1, x1]`, normalized to 0–1000 and rounded to one decimal.
- `label`: the checkpoint's class name.
- `reading_order`: a one-based rank among retained detections.
- `score`: confidence rounded to three decimals.

The returned list is in query order; sort by `reading_order` to consume it in
document order. This MLX interface returns rectangular boxes, not polygons or
segmentation masks.

The default inference recipe resizes RGB images to 1024×1024 and scales pixels
to [0, 1]. This matches IndicDocLayout's preprocessing and differs from the
stock Transformers processor's defaults. The mask-feature branch is retained
for mask-enhanced query initialization; training-only denoising weights are omitted.

## Validation

At `conf=0.5` with the same preprocessing and reading-order decoding, output
records matched fresh PyTorch reference runs on the English paper and
calendar/table samples in mlx-vlm (`examples/images/paper.png` and
`examples/images/demo_pdf1_page1.png`). Labels, reading order, and rounded
boxes/scores matched. This is sample-level output parity, not bitwise equality
of raw tensors or a detection-accuracy benchmark.

The 37-class IndicDocLayout fine-tune is available separately as the layout
stage of [IndicOCR (MLX)](https://huggingface.co/HashNuke/indic-ocr-mlx).

## License

The [upstream weights](https://huggingface.co/PaddlePaddle/PP-DocLayoutV3_safetensors)
are licensed under Apache-2.0. This conversion does not change that license.