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Falcon-OCR
TII's very small (0.3B) open-weights OCR model for converting document images to text and Markdown.
- Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
- Open weights
- Released 22 Feb 2026
Where it ranks
- –Documents & OCRModels · Local · no result on this task’s benchmarks yet
Facts
- Vendor
- Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
- Family
- Falcon-OCR
- Released
- 22 Feb 2026
- Weights
- Open: download and run it yourself
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Parameters
- 0.27B
- GPU memory to run locally
- ~2 GB (Estimate, no official figure: BF16 weights ≈ 0.27 B × 2 GB + ~1.5 GB runtime overhead. Size is the Hugging Face safetensors total.)
- Access
- Free (open weights)
- Last verified
- 19 Oct 2026
Price from huggingface.co, 19 Oct 2026.
Benchmark results
| Benchmark | Result | Entry on the leaderboard | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDPBench (multilingual document parsing) | 56.3% | FalconOCROverall (public split, page-level mean of text, formula and table scores) from the board's leaderboard.json (updated 2026-10-04). | 4 Oct 2026 | huggingface.co |
| ParseBench (models) | 53.1% | Falcon-OCROverall (mean of tables, charts, content faithfulness, semantic formatting, visual grounding) from leaderboard.csv in the ParseBench repo (last leaderboard commit 2026-10-09). | 9 Oct 2026 | github.com |
Where you can use it
No tracked tool lists this model yet; as open weights it runs in local runtimes.