[Feature] Custom base URL for ONNX files

[daniporr]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

Basically what is suggested in #26299 (comment)

Allow users to choose where to download the models from.
At the moment, most of them are downloaded from modelscope.cn, which is unavailable for many users. However, exactly the same models can be downloaded from huggingface.co, which is available for almost everyone.

We just need to have an additional option to specify the base URL to use when downloading the ONNX files.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

Can you not already do this with the HF_ENDPOINT env var?

[bo0tzz]

Is this thread not exactly that feature request...?

[mertalev]

We're working on our model export pipeline and plan to upload these models to HF. No ETA on when this will be done, though.

[daniporr]

Is this thread not exactly that feature request...?

In my mind yes. However, I was wondering whether someone would prefer a feature request specific for OCR models.

[daniporr]

We're working on our model export pipeline and plan to upload these models to HF. No ETA on when this will be done, though.

Thank you for letting us know.
However, as described in #26299 (comment), it seems that these models, or at least some of them, are already on HF.

[mertalev]

@daniporr That's true. This is something we're doing anyway for technical reasons, though, so it doesn't change anything.