Open-Source VLMs8 min read
How to use Llama 3.2 Vision for OCR
Timothy MFeb 14, 2025Open-Source VLMs
Open-source VLMs are vision language models with open weights, such as Florence-2, PaliGemma, SmolVLM and DeepSeek models, that you can run and fine-tune yourself. These posts compare them and show how to use them locally.
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- Timothy MFeb 14, 2025
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