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Falcon-OCR-bf16

mlx-community/Falcon-OCR-bf16
bf16 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
270M
Weights (est.)
≈ 540 MB
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/Falcon-OCR-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
tiiuae/Falcon-OCR (finetune)
Vendor
TII · Falcon
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
bf16
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
187 in the last 30 days · 1.5K all time · 4 likes
Published
2026-04-12 · updated 2026-04-12 (7mo ago)
Languages
en
Tags
falcon_ocr, vision-language, falcon, apple-silicon, custom_code, eval-results