TII · First MLX build 12 Apr 2026
Falcon-OCR
MLX
TextVision apache-2.0
A 270M parameter vision and text model from TII, with one MLX build at bf16.
- Parameters
- 270M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- bf16 Falcon-OCR-bf16
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 540 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 188 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at bf16
8 GB
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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/Falcon-OCR-bf16 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Falcon-OCR-bf16 | bf16 | 540 MB | 3 GB | 188 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.