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Turns document pages, charts, flowcharts, audio and video into one structured data file

Document readers usually stop at the page. Tencent's new parser reads the page and then keeps going: the chart printed on it, the flowchart next to it, the recording of the meeting where it was presented. One model, one output format.

MODELYoutu-Parsing-Omni
PUBLISHEDOctober 12, 2026
READ TIME3 min
CATEGORYAUDIO

Field notes

01 What it does

You give Youtu-Parsing-Omni one file and tell it what kind of thing it is: a document page, a photo, a chart, a flowchart, a geometry figure, an audio clip or a video. It returns one structured file in a fixed layout. For a page that means every block of text, each table, each formula and the reading order, with the position of every element. For a chart it rebuilds the table of numbers behind it. For a flowchart it writes out the boxes and arrows as an editable diagram description. For audio it splits the recording by speaker, transcribes it and stamps the time of each segment. For a lecture video it reads the slides and the speech together and writes a report of the whole thing.

The point is that all of this comes from one 5 billion parameter model with one output format, so a tool built on it does not need a separate text reader, chart reader and transcription service. On the standard document parsing test it edges out every specialised document model in its size class, and across charts, audio and video it trails only Gemini 3 Pro among the models tested.

02 How to try it

There is no official demo, but a community Space called youtu-parsing-omni runs the model on a shared GPU in your browser. Upload a PDF or a page image on the Image / PDF tab with the task set to document, press Parse, and switch between the Rendered, Layout and JSON views: Layout draws a box around every element it found, and JSON is the raw output your code would receive. Then open the Audio tab with a short voice memo and watch it split the speakers with timestamps. Running it yourself needs an NVIDIA graphics card and their setup script; the server it starts speaks the same chat format as the OpenAI API, so existing client code works with one extra flag.

03 Caveat

The license is Tencent's own rather than a standard open one, and it states in capital letters that the model is not intended for use within the European Union. If you or your users are in the EU, this one is not for you. The raw output also needs a rendering step before a person can read it; the demo does that for you, your own code will have to.

04 What you can do with it

  • Convert a folder of scanned contracts or invoices into searchable text with the tables intact.
  • Pull the numbers back out of a chart in a PDF report as an editable table.
  • Turn a photo of a whiteboard flowchart into a diagram you can edit.
  • Transcribe a meeting recording with speakers and timestamps.
  • Summarize a recorded lecture from its slides and speech together.

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