8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
1.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 1.4 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/LightOnOCR-2-1B-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"
Details
- Base model
- —
- Vendor
- —
- Task
- Vision + text
- Quantisation
- 8-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 108 in the last 30 days · 943 all time · 2 likes
- Published
- 2026-01-27 · updated 2026-02-06 (9mo ago)
- Languages
- en, fr, de, es, it, nl, pt, sv, da, zh, ja
- Tags
- mistral3, text-generation, document-understanding, vision-language, tables, forms