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DeepSeek-OCR-5bit

mlx-community/DeepSeek-OCR-5bit
Vision + text · transformers
5-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
3.3B
Weights (est.)
≈ 2.8 GB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/DeepSeek-OCR-5bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
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Vendor
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Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
5-bit
Licence
mit
Downloads
63 in the last 30 days · 3.6K all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-10-26 · updated 2026-01-28 (9mo ago)
Languages
multilingual
Tags
deepseekocr, feature-extraction, deepseek, vision-language, custom_code