---
base_model: mikoy92/Unlimited-OCR-bf16-mlx
license: mit
language:
- multilingual
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
tags:
- mlx
- mlx-vlm
- ocr
- vision-language
- baidu
- deepseekocr
- quantized
- 8-bit
- affine
library_name: mlx
---

# Unlimited-OCR 8-bit MLX

This is an 8-bit affine MLX quantization of [`mikoy92/Unlimited-OCR-bf16-mlx`](https://huggingface.co/mikoy92/Unlimited-OCR-bf16-mlx), converted with `mlx-vlm`.

Quantization settings:

- mode: `affine`
- bits: `8`
- group size: `64`
- observed effective bits per weight during conversion: `9.408`

Because this is a vision-language OCR model, `mlx-vlm` does not aggressively quantize every multimodal tensor; the effective bits-per-weight can be higher than exactly 8-bit.

## Usage

```bash
pip install -U mlx-vlm

mlx_vlm.generate \
  --model mikoy92/Unlimited-OCR-8bit-mlx \
  --image /path/to/image.png \
  --prompt "Extract all readable text from this image." \
  --max-tokens 512 \
  --temperature 0
```

## Validation

Before upload, this checkpoint was loaded locally with `mlx_vlm.generate` and produced OCR text/table output on a document-image smoke test.