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PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-6bit

mlx-community/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-6bit
Vision + text · PaddleOCR
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
906M
Weights (est.)
≈ 896 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/PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-6bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle (quantized)
Vendor
baidu
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
23 in the last 30 days · 300 all time · 0 likes
Published
2026-01-29 · updated 2026-01-29 (9mo ago)
Languages
en, zh, multilingual
Tags
PaddleOCR, paddleocr_vl, ERNIE4.5, PaddlePaddle, image-to-text, document-parse, layout, table, formula, chart, seal, spotting

Other MLX builds of baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-4bit 4-bit ≈ 703 MB 8 GB+ 2.3K
PaddleOCR-VL-4bit 4-bit ≈ 703 MB 8 GB+ 55
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-5bit 5-bit ≈ 800 MB 8 GB+ 16
PaddleOCR-VL-5bit 5-bit ≈ 800 MB 8 GB+ 12
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 896 MB 8 GB+ 23
PaddleOCR-VL-6bit 6-bit ≈ 896 MB 8 GB+ 14
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-8bit 8-bit ≈ 1.1 GB 8 GB+ 874
PaddleOCR-VL-8bit 8-bit ≈ 1.1 GB 8 GB+ 46
PaddleOCR-VL-1.5-bf16 bf16 ≈ 1.8 GB 8 GB+ 1.0K
PaddleOCR-VL-bfloat16 — ≈ 1.8 GB 8 GB+ 108