MLX Community · First MLX build 3 Mar 2025
olmOCR-7B-0225-preview
MLX
TextVision apache-2.0
A 8.3B parameter vision and text model, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 8.3B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- bf16 olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-bf16
- Memory needed
- 21 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 16.6 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 430 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 4 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 21 GB at bf16
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · mlx-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
4 on mlx-community| olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-4bit | 4-bit | 5.6 GB | 9 GB | 45 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-6bit | 6-bit | 7.5 GB | 11 GB | 27 |
| olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-bf16 | bf16 | 16.6 GB | 21 GB | 430 |
| olmOCR-7B-0225-preview-8bit | 8-bit | — | — | 0 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.