Requested feature

Currently, when using RapidOCR, the initialization of RapidOcrModel considers artifacts_path. That is, it searches for model artifacts under artifacts_path as defined here:

• docling/docling/models/auto_ocr_model.py

  Lines 65 to 74 in 6a04e27

  	self._engine = RapidOcrModel(
  	enabled=self.enabled,
  	artifacts_path=artifacts_path,
  	options=RapidOcrOptions(
  	backend="onnxruntime",
  	bitmap_area_threshold=self.options.bitmap_area_threshold,
  	force_full_page_ocr=self.options.force_full_page_ocr,
  	),
  	accelerator_options=accelerator_options,
  	)

• docling/docling/models/rapid_ocr_model.py

  Lines 125 to 149 in 6a04e27

  	if artifacts_path is not None:
  	det_model_path = (
  	det_model_path
  	or artifacts_path
  	/ self._model_repo_folder
  	/ self._default_models[backend_enum.value]["det_model_path"]["path"]
  	)
  	cls_model_path = (
  	cls_model_path
  	or artifacts_path
  	/ self._model_repo_folder
  	/ self._default_models[backend_enum.value]["cls_model_path"]["path"]
  	)
  	rec_model_path = (
  	rec_model_path
  	or artifacts_path
  	/ self._model_repo_folder
  	/ self._default_models[backend_enum.value]["rec_model_path"]["path"]
  	)
  	rec_keys_path = (
  	rec_keys_path
  	or artifacts_path
  	/ self._model_repo_folder
  	/ self._default_models[backend_enum.value]["rec_keys_path"]["path"]
  	)

When installing rapidocr it already ships with the base onnx models available under ...\Lib\site-packages\rapidocr\models. Therefore, we usually do not need downloading these models separately from Modelscope. However, when setting artifacts_path in the pipeline, e.g., for loading the layout detection or table structure model, we are currently not able to load the default onnx models shipped with rapidocr.

@geoHeil Would it be possible to either deliberately skip a globally defined artifacts_path in order to preload the shipped models and skip downloading from Modelscope or b) make loading from ...\Lib\site-packages\rapidocr\models the default?