diff --git a/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py b/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
index a24df89d..433b5859 100644
--- a/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
+++ b/docling/datamodel/pipeline_options.py
@@ -196,6 +196,15 @@ class TesseractOcrOptions(OcrOptions):
     )
 
 
+class DoctrOcrOptions(OcrOptions):
+    kind: ClassVar[Literal["doctr"]] = "doctr"
+
+    lang: Optional[List[str]] = None
+    model_name: str = "db_resnet50"
+    pretrained: bool = True
+
+
+
 class OcrMacOptions(OcrOptions):
     """Options for the Mac OCR engine."""
 
diff --git a/docling/models/doctr_ocr_model.py b/docling/models/doctr_ocr_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c685bf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docling/models/doctr_ocr_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import logging
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional, Type
+import numpy as np
+from io import BytesIO
+
+from docling_core.types.doc import BoundingBox, CoordOrigin
+from docling_core.types.doc.page import BoundingRectangle, TextCell
+
+from docling.datamodel.base_models import Page
+from docling.datamodel.document import ConversionResult
+from docling.datamodel.pipeline_options import (
+    AcceleratorOptions,
+    OcrOptions,
+    DoctrOcrOptions,
+)
+from docling.datamodel.settings import settings
+from docling.models.base_ocr_model import BaseOcrModel
+from docling.utils.profiling import TimeRecorder
+
+_log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+class DoctrOcrModel(BaseOcrModel):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        enabled: bool,
+        artifacts_path: Optional[Path],
+        options: OcrOptions,
+        accelerator_options: AcceleratorOptions,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(
+            enabled=enabled,
+            artifacts_path=artifacts_path,
+            options=options,
+            accelerator_options=accelerator_options,
+        )
+        
+        if self.enabled:
+            try:
+                from doctr.models import ocr_predictor
+            except ImportError:
+                raise ImportError(
+                    "The 'python-doctr' library is not installed. Install it via `pip install python-doctr`."
+                )
+
+            _log.debug("Initializing Doctr OCR engine")
+            # Initialize a simple Doctr OCR model
+            self.model = ocr_predictor(pretrained=True)
+        else:
+            self.model = None
+
+    def __call__(self, conv_res: ConversionResult, page_batch: Iterable[Page]) -> Iterable[Page]:
+        if not self.enabled or self.model is None:
+            yield from page_batch
+            return
+
+        from doctr.io import DocumentFile
+
+        for page in page_batch:
+            assert page._backend is not None
+            if not page._backend.is_valid():
+                yield page
+            else:
+                with TimeRecorder(conv_res, "ocr"):
+                    pil_image = page._backend.get_page_image(scale=1).convert("RGB")
+
+                    # 2) Convert it to raw PNG bytes
+                    buf = BytesIO()
+                    pil_image.save(buf, format="PNG")
+                    img_bytes = buf.getvalue()
+
+                    # 3) Wrap in a list and hand to doctr
+                    doc = DocumentFile.from_images([img_bytes])
+
+                    result = self.model(doc)
+
+                    all_cells = []
+                    if len(result.pages) > 0:
+                        doc_page = result.pages[0]
+                        for block in doc_page.blocks:
+                            for line in block.lines:
+                                line_text = " ".join(w.value for w in line.words)
+                                (left, top), (right, bottom) = line.geometry
+                                if line.words:
+                                    conf = float(np.mean([w.confidence for w in line.words]))
+                                else:
+                                    conf = 0.0
+
+                                all_cells.append(
+                                    TextCell(
+                                        index=len(all_cells),
+                                        text=line_text,
+                                        orig=line_text,
+                                        from_ocr=True,
+                                        confidence=conf,
+                                        rect=BoundingRectangle.from_bounding_box(
+                                            BoundingBox.from_tuple(
+                                                coord=(left, top, right, bottom),
+                                                origin=CoordOrigin.TOPLEFT,
+                                            ),
+                                        ),
+                                    )
+                                )
+                    # Attach the OCR cells to the page
+                    page.cells = self.post_process_cells(all_cells, page.cells)
+
+                if settings.debug.visualize_ocr:
+                    self.draw_ocr_rects_and_cells(conv_res, page, [])
+
+                yield page
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_options_type(cls) -> Type[OcrOptions]:
+        return DoctrOcrOptions
diff --git a/docling/models/plugins/defaults.py b/docling/models/plugins/defaults.py
index 00873579..cb562fa9 100644
--- a/docling/models/plugins/defaults.py
+++ b/docling/models/plugins/defaults.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from docling.models.picture_description_vlm_model import PictureDescriptionVlmMo
 from docling.models.rapid_ocr_model import RapidOcrModel
 from docling.models.tesseract_ocr_cli_model import TesseractOcrCliModel
 from docling.models.tesseract_ocr_model import TesseractOcrModel
+from docling.models.doctr_ocr_model import DoctrOcrModel
 
 
 def ocr_engines():
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ def ocr_engines():
             RapidOcrModel,
             TesseractOcrModel,
             TesseractOcrCliModel,
+            DoctrOcrModel,
         ]
     }