Visual Document Retrieval Goes Multilingual

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Hugging Face introduces multilingual visual document retrieval, enabling search across languages

advanced Published 10 Jan 2025

Action Steps

Explore the Hugging Face blog post on multilingual visual document retrieval
Review the usage and training dataset sections
Investigate the evaluations and cross-lingual retrieval capabilities

Who Needs to Know This

Machine learning engineers and researchers on a team can benefit from this technology to improve document retrieval systems, while product managers can leverage it to enhance user experience

Key Insight

💡 Multilingual visual document retrieval enables search across languages, breaking language barriers

Key Takeaways

Hugging Face introduces multilingual visual document retrieval, enabling search across languages

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Published Time: 2025-01-10T00:00:00.507Z

# Visual Document Retrieval Goes Multilingual

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# [](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#visual-document-retrieval-goes-multilingual) Visual Document Retrieval Goes Multilingual

Published January 10, 2025

[Update on GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/vdr-2b-multilingual.md)

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> * [Usage](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#usage "Usage")
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> * [Training Dataset](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#training-dataset "Training Dataset")
> * [Data Gathering](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#data-gathering "Data Gathering")
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> * [Synthetic Generation](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#synthetic-generation "Synthetic Generation")
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> * [Filtering and Hard-Negative Mining](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#filtering-and-hard-negative-mining "Filtering and Hard-Negative Mining")
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> * [Download](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#download "Download")
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> * [Evaluations](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#evaluations "Evaluations")
> * [Faster Inference](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#faster-inference "Faster Inference")
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> * [Cross-Lingual Retrieval](https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual#cross-lingual-retrieval

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