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Nanonets-OCR2-3B-8bit

mlx-community/Nanonets-OCR2-3B-8bit
Vision + text · transformers
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
3.8B
Weights (est.)
≈ 4.6 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/Nanonets-OCR2-3B-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct (quantized)
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
8-bit
Licence
—
Downloads
130 in the last 30 days · 1.6K all time · 1 likes
Published
2025-10-14 · updated 2025-10-14 (1y ago)
Languages
multilingual
Tags
qwen2_5_vl, OCR, image-to-text, pdf2markdown, VQA

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-abliterated-4bit 4-bit ≈ 2.3 GB 8 GB+ 122
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-3bit 3-bit ≈ 2.7 GB 8 GB+ 135
Holo1-3B-3bit 3-bit ≈ 2.7 GB 8 GB+ 34
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 6.5K
Nanonets-OCR2-3B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 98
Holo1-3B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 41
Nanonets-OCR-s-4bit 4-bit ≈ 3.1 GB 8 GB+ 33
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.2 GB 8 GB+ 156
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-abliterated-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.2 GB 8 GB+ 70
Nanonets-OCR2-3B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.8 GB 8 GB+ 42
Holo1-3B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.8 GB 8 GB+ 27
Nanonets-OCR-s-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.8 GB 8 GB+ 19
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.1 GB 8 GB+ 246
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-abliterated-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.1 GB 8 GB+ 85
Nanonets-OCR2-3B-8bit (this one) 8-bit ≈ 4.6 GB 8 GB+ 130
Holo1-3B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.6 GB 8 GB+ 30
Nanonets-OCR-s-8bit 8-bit ≈ 4.6 GB 8 GB+ 21
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-bf16 bf16 ≈ 7.5 GB 16 GB+ 178
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-abliterated — ≈ 7.5 GB 16 GB+ 99
Nanonets-OCR2-3B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 7.5 GB 16 GB+ 94
Nanonets-OCR-s-bf16 bf16 ≈ 7.5 GB 16 GB+ 73
Holo1-3B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 7.5 GB 16 GB+ 25