NIM OCR

Model name: nim_paddle_ocr

About NVIDIA NIM Image OCR

The NVIDIA NIM for Image OCR API is an (Optical Character Recognition) microservice and interface that extracts text from images on NVIDIA NIM.

Supported aidb operations

• perform_ocr

Supported models

NVIDIA NIM for Image OCR

• baidu/paddleocr (default)

Creating the default model

SELECT aidb.create_model(
    'my_paddle_ocr_model',
    'nim_paddle_ocr',
    credentials => '{"api_key": "__NVIDIA_NIM_API_KEY__" }'::JSONB
);

There is currently only one model supported by NVIDIA NIM for Image OCR API, the default baidu/paddleocr, so you don't need to specify the model in the configuration.

Model configuration settings

The following configuration settings are available for PADDLE_OCR models:

• url — The default is https://ai.api.nvidia.com/v1/cv/baidu/paddleocr.

Model credentials

The following credentials are required if executing inside NVIDIA NGC:

• api_key — The NVIDIA Cloud API key to use for authentication.