From 133d989060bf877b4c3ca83881a0a888ef9edd2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Morady <29502285+dmorady1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:51:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add support for additional parameters in
 RapidOcrOptions and fix RapidOcr font_path

---
 docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py |  5 ++-
 docling/models/rapid_ocr_model.py     | 58 +++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py b/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
index 278713d3..6cfff1b5 100644
--- a/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
+++ b/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
@@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ class RapidOcrOptions(OcrOptions):
     cls_model_path: Optional[str] = None  # same default as rapidocr
     rec_model_path: Optional[str] = None  # same default as rapidocr
     rec_keys_path: Optional[str] = None  # same default as rapidocr
-    rec_font_path: Optional[str] = None  # same default as rapidocr
+    font_path: Optional[str] = None  # same default as rapidocr
+
+    # Dictionary to overwrite or pass-through additional parameters
+    rapidocr_params: Dict[str, Any] = Field(default_factory=dict)
 
     model_config = ConfigDict(
         extra="forbid",
diff --git a/docling/models/rapid_ocr_model.py b/docling/models/rapid_ocr_model.py
index 6ace3a5e..8476a938 100644
--- a/docling/models/rapid_ocr_model.py
+++ b/docling/models/rapid_ocr_model.py
@@ -62,32 +62,40 @@ class RapidOcrModel(BaseOcrModel):
             }
             backend_enum = _ALIASES.get(self.options.backend, EngineType.ONNXRUNTIME)
 
+            params = {
+                # Global settings (these are still correct)
+                "Global.text_score": self.options.text_score,
+                "Global.font_path": self.options.font_path,
+                # "Global.verbose": self.options.print_verbose,
+                # Detection model settings
+                "Det.model_path": self.options.det_model_path,
+                "Det.use_cuda": use_cuda,
+                "Det.use_dml": use_dml,
+                "Det.intra_op_num_threads": intra_op_num_threads,
+                # Classification model settings
+                "Cls.model_path": self.options.cls_model_path,
+                "Cls.use_cuda": use_cuda,
+                "Cls.use_dml": use_dml,
+                "Cls.intra_op_num_threads": intra_op_num_threads,
+                # Recognition model settings
+                "Rec.model_path": self.options.rec_model_path,
+                "Rec.font_path": self.options.rec_font_path,
+                "Rec.keys_path": self.options.rec_keys_path,
+                "Rec.use_cuda": use_cuda,
+                "Rec.use_dml": use_dml,
+                "Rec.intra_op_num_threads": intra_op_num_threads,
+                "Det.engine_type": backend_enum,
+                "Cls.engine_type": backend_enum,
+                "Rec.engine_type": backend_enum,
+            }
+
+            user_params = self.options.rapidocr_params
+            if user_params:
+                _log.debug("Overwriting RapidOCR params with user-provided values.")
+                params.update(user_params)
+
             self.reader = RapidOCR(
-                params={
-                    # Global settings (these are still correct)
-                    "Global.text_score": self.options.text_score,
-                    # "Global.verbose": self.options.print_verbose,
-                    # Detection model settings
-                    "Det.model_path": self.options.det_model_path,
-                    "Det.use_cuda": use_cuda,
-                    "Det.use_dml": use_dml,
-                    "Det.intra_op_num_threads": intra_op_num_threads,
-                    # Classification model settings
-                    "Cls.model_path": self.options.cls_model_path,
-                    "Cls.use_cuda": use_cuda,
-                    "Cls.use_dml": use_dml,
-                    "Cls.intra_op_num_threads": intra_op_num_threads,
-                    # Recognition model settings
-                    "Rec.model_path": self.options.rec_model_path,
-                    "Rec.font_path": self.options.rec_font_path,
-                    "Rec.keys_path": self.options.rec_keys_path,
-                    "Rec.use_cuda": use_cuda,
-                    "Rec.use_dml": use_dml,
-                    "Rec.intra_op_num_threads": intra_op_num_threads,
-                    "Det.engine_type": backend_enum,
-                    "Cls.engine_type": backend_enum,
-                    "Rec.engine_type": backend_enum,
-                }
+                params=params,
             )
 
     def __call__(