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Get DeepSeek-OCR running on an NVIDIA Spark with Claude Code

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With four prompts and about 40 minutes, Claude Code figured out the right ARM CUDA PyTorch wheels, got DeepSeek-OCR running on NVIDIA Spark hardware, and OCR'd a test image.

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Claude Code

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Your task is to get this working: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR —it uses Hugging Face Transformers and models from https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR —you are running in a Docker container on an NVIDIA ARM device, first research your environment to check it will be possible to do this. Git clone both of those—you may need to enable LFS first. Make extensive notes as you go in a notes.md file which you should only ever append new notes to. At the end of this you should have scripts in the folder which can be run to both setup and then run the model against an example—use https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/ft.jpeg as the example image that you OCR. As a final step create a detailed README.md file explaining the project and what you learned and how to run your code.

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https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-code/

By Simon Willison · Published Oct 20, 2025 · Added Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Oct 15, 2026

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