diff --git a/formula_img2latex/cli.py b/formula_img2latex/cli.py
index a1f07dd..febc1fa 100644
--- a/formula_img2latex/cli.py
+++ b/formula_img2latex/cli.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
     sp = sub.add_parser("recognize", help="LaTeX-Kandidaten mit einem Vision-Modell erzeugen")
     common(sp)
     recog_opts(sp)
-    sp.add_argument("--engine", choices=["local", "local2", "cloud"], default="local")
+    sp.add_argument("--engine", choices=["local", "local2", "cloud", "p2t"], default="local")
     sp.add_argument("--only-unresolved", action="store_true",
                     help="nur Formeln, die noch nicht automatisch angenommen sind")
 
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ def _dispatch(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
         pipeline.scan(source, ws, quiet=q)
     elif args.command == "recognize":
         pipeline.recognize(source, ws, args.engine, args.model, args.url, args.only_unresolved,
-                           args.include_figures, args.limit, args.workers or (4 if args.engine == "local" else 8), q)
+                           args.include_figures, args.limit,
+                           args.workers or {"local": 4, "p2t": 1}.get(args.engine, 8), q)
     elif args.command == "verify":
         pipeline.verify_all(source, ws, None if args.preset == "auto" else args.preset, args.include_figures,
                             args.workers, args.redo, q)
diff --git a/formula_img2latex/consensus.py b/formula_img2latex/consensus.py
index 010098a..eb0ca3e 100644
--- a/formula_img2latex/consensus.py
+++ b/formula_img2latex/consensus.py
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ _ENV_DELIMS = {"pmatrix": ("(", ")"), "bmatrix": ("[", "]"), "Bmatrix": ("\\{",
 
 
 _UMLAUT = {"a": "ä", "o": "ö", "u": "ü", "A": "Ä", "O": "Ö", "U": "Ü"}
+# \operatorname{l i m} (Pix2Text spells upright words letter by letter) is the same symbol as \lim
+_OPERATORS = {"sin", "cos", "tan", "cot", "sec", "csc", "arcsin", "arccos", "arctan", "sinh", "cosh", "tanh", "coth",
+              "lim", "liminf", "limsup", "log", "ln", "lg", "exp", "max", "min", "sup", "inf", "det", "dim", "ker",
+              "deg", "gcd", "arg", "hom", "Pr"}
+# upright text groups; one level of nested braces (\mathrm{f \ddot{u} r})
+_TEXT_GROUP = re.compile(r"\\(operatorname\*?|mathrm|text|textrm|mbox|textnormal|textup)\s*\{((?:[^{}]|\{[^{}]*\})*)\}")
 _BOLD = {"\\boldsymbol", "\\mathbf", "\\bm", "\\pmb"}
 # commands that never take an argument: a group right after them is free-standing
 _NOARG = {"\\cdot", "\\times", "\\pm", "\\mp", "\\le", "\\ge", "\\ne", "\\in", "\\to", "\\Rightarrow",
@@ -60,7 +66,11 @@ def canonical(tex: str, bold: bool = False) -> str:
     """
     body, tag = split_tag(strip_delimiters(tex))
     body = prepare_for_render(body)
+    body = _TEXT_GROUP.sub(_text_group, body)
     body = re.sub(r'\{?\\"\{?([aouAOU])\}?\}?', lambda m: _UMLAUT[m.group(1)], body)   # f{\"u}r -> für
+    body = re.sub(r"\^\s*\{\s*((?:\\prime\s*)+)\}", lambda m: "'" * m.group(1).count("\\prime"), body)  # f^{\prime}
+    body = re.sub(r"\^\s*\\prime(?![A-Za-z])", "'", body)
+    body = re.sub(r"\\\\\s*(?=\\end\{)", "", body)   # a final \\ before \end{...} adds no row
     body = re.sub(r"\{?\\ss\{?\}?\}?", "ß", body)
     body = re.sub(r"\{([^{}]*)\}\s*\\atop\s*\{([^{}]*)\}", r"\\substack{\1\\\\\2}", body)
     body = re.sub(r"\\begin\{array\}\{[^{}]*\}", r"\\begin{matrix}", body).replace("\\end{array}", "\\end{matrix}")
@@ -77,6 +87,15 @@ def canonical(tex: str, bold: bool = False) -> str:
     return s + (f"#tag({tag})" if tag else "")
 
 
+def _text_group(m: re.Match[str]) -> str:
+    """\\operatorname{l i m} -> \\lim; \\ddot{u} inside upright text -> ü (Pix2Text's spelling of umlauts)."""
+    inner = re.sub(r"\\ddot\s*\{?\s*([aouAOU])\s*\}?", lambda mm: _UMLAUT[mm.group(1)], m.group(2))
+    word = re.sub(r"[\s~]|\\[,;: ]", "", inner)
+    if word in _OPERATORS:
+        return f"\\{word} "
+    return f"\\{m.group(1)}{{{inner}}}"
+
+
 def _parse(toks: list[str], i: int = 0) -> tuple[list, int]:
     """Token list -> nested lists for {...} groups."""
     out: list = []
diff --git a/formula_img2latex/engines/__init__.py b/formula_img2latex/engines/__init__.py
index 79d65c0..b10e61b 100644
--- a/formula_img2latex/engines/__init__.py
+++ b/formula_img2latex/engines/__init__.py
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@
 
 Engines only propose; verify.py decides. Every engine speaks the OpenAI chat-completions API
 with an image part, so a local llama.cpp server (llama-server with --mmproj) and OpenRouter use
-the same code.
+the same code. The exception is 'p2t' (Pix2Text), a dedicated formula OCR model running in-process.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
 
+from .p2t import DEFAULT_MODEL as DEFAULT_P2T_MODEL, Pix2TextEngine
 from .vlm import VisionEngine
 
 DEFAULT_LOCAL_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8011/v1"
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ DEFAULT_CLOUD_URL = "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
 DEFAULT_CLOUD_MODEL = "z-ai/glm-4.6v"
 
 
-def make_engine(name: str, model: str | None = None, url: str | None = None) -> VisionEngine:
-    """'local'/'local2' (two llama.cpp servers with different models) or 'cloud' (OpenRouter)."""
+def make_engine(name: str, model: str | None = None, url: str | None = None) -> VisionEngine | Pix2TextEngine:
+    """'local'/'local2' (two llama.cpp servers with different models), 'cloud' (OpenRouter) or 'p2t'."""
     if name in ("local", "local2"):
         suffix = "" if name == "local" else "2"
         return VisionEngine(
@@ -44,4 +45,7 @@ def make_engine(name: str, model: str | None = None, url: str | None = None) ->
             # GLM-4.6V with reasoning garbled formulas it reads correctly without (and took 25x the tokens)
             thinking=os.environ.get("FORMULA_CLOUD_THINKING", "0") == "1",
         )
-    raise ValueError(f"unbekannte Engine {name!r} (local, local2, cloud)")
+    if name == "p2t":
+        return Pix2TextEngine(model=model or os.environ.get("FORMULA_P2T_MODEL", DEFAULT_P2T_MODEL),
+                              device=os.environ.get("FORMULA_P2T_DEVICE", "cpu"))
+    raise ValueError(f"unbekannte Engine {name!r} (local, local2, cloud, p2t)")
diff --git a/formula_img2latex/engines/p2t.py b/formula_img2latex/engines/p2t.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f543fb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/formula_img2latex/engines/p2t.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+"""Pix2Text formula OCR (MFR model) as a local candidate generator.
+
+Not a vision-language model but a dedicated image-to-LaTeX transformer: another kind of model than
+the VLM engines, so its errors are likely to be different ones. Runs on the CPU (ONNX), no server.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import io
+import threading
+import time
+
+from PIL import Image
+
+from ..errors import EXIT_TOOL, FormulaError
+from .vlm import Recognition, prepare_image
+
+DEFAULT_MODEL = "mfr-1.5"
+
+
+class Pix2TextEngine:
+    def __init__(self, model: str = DEFAULT_MODEL, device: str = "cpu") -> None:
+        self.name = "p2t"
+        self.model_name = model
+        self.model = f"pix2text-{model}"
+        self.device = device
+        self.thinking = None   # part of the cache key in pipeline.recognize; meaningless here
+        self._ocr = None
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()   # one model instance; inference is not shared between threads
+
+    def check(self) -> None:
+        """Load the model (downloads it to ~/.pix2text on first use)."""
+        if self._ocr is not None:
+            return
+        try:
+            from pix2text import LatexOCR
+        except ImportError as e:
+            raise FormulaError(f"pix2text ist nicht installiert ({e}): pip install 'pix2text[multilingual]'",
+                               EXIT_TOOL) from e
+        try:
+            self._ocr = LatexOCR(model_name=self.model_name, model_backend="onnx", device=self.device)
+        except Exception as e:   # download or model files broken: any exception type is possible here
+            raise FormulaError(f"Pix2Text-Modell {self.model_name} nicht ladbar ({e})", EXIT_TOOL) from e
+
+    def recognize(self, data: bytes, name: str = "", context: str = "", display: bool = False) -> Recognition:
+        """Read one formula image. *context* and *display* are not used (the model sees only the image)."""
+        t0 = time.time()
+        try:
+            self.check()
+            img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(prepare_image(data, name))).convert("RGB")
+            with self._lock:
+                # _one_batch instead of recognize(): the latter draws a tqdm bar for every image
+                out = self._ocr._one_batch([img], None)[0]
+                tex = self._ocr.post_process(out["text"]).strip()
+        except Exception as e:   # model not loadable or one unreadable image: must not stop the run
+            return Recognition(self.name, self.model, None, None, "", str(e)[:300], time.time() - t0)
+        score = float(out.get("score") or 0.0) or None
+        return Recognition(self.name, self.model, tex or None, None, tex[:2000], None, time.time() - t0,
+                           p_mean=score)
diff --git a/tests/test_pipeline.py b/tests/test_pipeline.py
index 2f59a26..4a032c7 100644
--- a/tests/test_pipeline.py
+++ b/tests/test_pipeline.py
@@ -185,13 +185,25 @@ def test_canonical_form() -> None:
     from formula_img2latex.consensus import canonical
     same = [(r"x^{2}+y^{2}", "x^2 + y^2"), (r"\vec{b}", r"\overrightarrow{b}"), (r"\left(a\right)", "(a)"),
             (r"\mathrm{d}x", "dx"), (r"\frac{1}{2}", r"\dfrac12"), (r"{\mathrm{e}}^{x}", "e^x"), (r"x\le1", r"x \leq 1"),
-            (r"\mathbf{v}", r"\boldsymbol{v}")]
+            (r"\mathbf{v}", r"\boldsymbol{v}"),
+            # Pix2Text spellings
+            (r"\operatorname{l i m}_{x \to0} \frac{\operatorname{s i n} x} {x}", r"\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}"),
+            (r"\mathrm{f \ddot{u} r ~ a l l e ~} x", r"\text{für alle } x"), (r"f^{\prime\prime}(x)", "f''(x)"),
+            (r"\left( \begin{matrix} {1} & {2} \\ \end{matrix} \right)", r"\begin{pmatrix}1&2\end{pmatrix}"),
+            (r"{\int}_{0}^{\infty} \! e^{-x^{2}} \, d x \!=\! \frac{\sqrt\pi} 2", r"\int_0^\infty e^{-x^2}\,dx=\frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2}")]
     differ = [(r"x_{2,k}", r"x_{2;k}"), ("x^{2}", "x_{2}"), (r"\mathbb{R}", "R"), ("a_{n+1}", "a_n+1"),
-              (r"\frac{a}{b+c}", r"\frac{a}{b}+c"), (r"x \in t", r"x \int"), (r"\sqrt[3]{x}", r"\sqrt{x}")]
+              (r"\frac{a}{b+c}", r"\frac{a}{b}+c"), (r"x \in t", r"x \int"), (r"\sqrt[3]{x}", r"\sqrt{x}"),
+              (r"\ddot{u}", "ü"), (r"\mathrm{lin}", r"\lim"), (r"f^{\prime 2}", "f'"), (r"f^{\prime}", "f")]
     assert all(canonical(a) == canonical(b) for a, b in same)
     assert all(canonical(a) != canonical(b) for a, b in differ)
 
 
+def test_p2t_engine_is_lazy() -> None:
+    from formula_img2latex.engines import make_engine
+    e = make_engine("p2t")
+    assert (e.name, e.model, e._ocr) == ("p2t", "pix2text-mfr-1.5", None)   # model loads only in check()
+
+
 def test_logprob_confidence() -> None:
     import math