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Instructions to use thelamapi/next-ocr with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="thelamapi/next-ocr") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("thelamapi/next-ocr") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("thelamapi/next-ocr") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - llama-cpp-python
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with llama-cpp-python:
# !pip install llama-cpp-python from llama_cpp import Llama llm = Llama.from_pretrained( repo_id="thelamapi/next-ocr", filename="mmproj-next-ocr-F16.gguf", )
llm.create_chat_completion( messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] ) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- llama.cpp
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with llama.cpp:
Install (macOS, Linux)
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Use pre-built binary
# Download pre-built binary from: # https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./llama-server -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./llama-cli -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Build from source code
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git cd llama.cpp cmake -B build cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./build/bin/llama-server -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16 # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./build/bin/llama-cli -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
- LM Studio
- Jan
- vLLM
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "thelamapi/next-ocr" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "thelamapi/next-ocr", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
- SGLang
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "thelamapi/next-ocr" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "thelamapi/next-ocr", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "thelamapi/next-ocr" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "thelamapi/next-ocr", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Ollama
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
- Unsloth Studio
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Unsloth Studio:
Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh # Run unsloth studio unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888 # Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser # Search for thelamapi/next-ocr to start chatting
Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)
irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex # Run unsloth studio unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888 # Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser # Search for thelamapi/next-ocr to start chatting
Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth
# No setup required # Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser # Search for thelamapi/next-ocr to start chatting
- Pi
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Pi:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "llama-cpp": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "thelamapi/next-ocr:F16" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Hermes Agent:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Run Hermes
hermes
- Atomic Chat new
- Docker Model Runner
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
- Lemonade
How to use thelamapi/next-ocr with Lemonade:
Pull the model
# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/ lemonade pull thelamapi/next-ocr:F16
Run and chat with the model
lemonade run user.next-ocr-F16
List all available models
lemonade list
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| - text-generation-inference | |
| - transformers | |
| - unsloth | |
| - qwen3_vl | |
| - trl | |
| - sft | |
| - chemistry | |
| - code | |
| - climate | |
| - art | |
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| pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text | |
| library_name: transformers | |
| <img src='bannerocr.png'> | |
| # 🖼️ Next OCR 8B | |
| ### *Compact OCR AI — Accurate, Fast, Multilingual, Math-Optimized* | |
| [](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) | |
| []() | |
| [](https://huggingface.co/Lamapi/next-ocr) | |
| [](https://discord.gg/XgH4EpyPD2) | |
| --- | |
| ## 📖 Overview | |
| **Next OCR 8B** is an **8-billion parameter model** optimized for **optical character recognition (OCR) tasks** with **mathematical and tabular content understanding**. | |
| Supports **multilingual OCR** (Turkish, English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian...) with high accuracy, including structured documents like tables, forms, and formulas. | |
| --- | |
| ## ⚡ Highlights | |
| * 🖼️ Accurate text extraction, including math and tables | |
| * 🌍 Multilingual support (30+ languages) | |
| * ⚡ Lightweight and efficient | |
| * 💬 Instruction-tuned for document understanding and analysis | |
| --- | |
| ## 📊 Benchmark & Comparison | |
|  | |
| --- | |
| | Model | OCR-Bench Accuracy (%) | Multilingual Accuracy (%) | Layout / Table Understanding (%) | | |
| | ------------------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | -------------------------------- | | |
| | **Next OCR** | **99.0** | **96.8** | **95.3** | | |
| | PaddleOCR | 95.2 | 93.9 | 95.3 | | |
| | Deepseek OCR | 90.6 | 87.4 | 86.1 | | |
| | Tesseract | 92.0 | 88.4 | 72.0 | | |
| | EasyOCR | 90.4 | 84.7 | 78.9 | | |
| | Google Cloud Vision / DocAI | 98.7 | 95.5 | 93.6 | | |
| | Amazon Textract | 94.7 | 86.2 | 86.1 | | |
| | Azure Document Intelligence | 95.1 | 93.6 | 91.4 | | |
| --- | |
| | Model | Handwriting (%) | Scene Text (%) | Complex Tables (%) | | |
| | --------------------------- | --------------- | -------------- | ------------------ | | |
| | **Next OCR** | 92 | 96 | 91 | | |
| | PaddleOCR | 88 | 92 | 90 | | |
| | Deepseek OCR | 80 | 85 | 83 | | |
| | Tesseract | 75 | 88 | 70 | | |
| | EasyOCR | 78 | 86 | 75 | | |
| | Google Cloud Vision / DocAI | 90 | 95 | 92 | | |
| | Amazon Textract | 85 | 90 | 88 | | |
| | Azure Document Intelligence | 87 | 91 | 89 | | |
| --- | |
| ## 🚀 Installation & Usage | |
| ```python | |
| from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForVision2Seq | |
| import torch | |
| model_id = "Lamapi/next-ocr" | |
| tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id) | |
| model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16) | |
| img = Image.open("image.jpg") | |
| # ATTENTION: The content list must include both an image and text. | |
| messages = [ | |
| {"role": "system", "content": "You are Next-OCR, an helpful AI assistant trained by Lamapi."}, | |
| { | |
| "role": "user", | |
| "content": [ | |
| {"type": "image", "image": img}, | |
| {"type": "text", "text": "Read the text in this image and summarize it."} | |
| ] | |
| } | |
| ] | |
| # Apply the chat template correctly | |
| prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True) | |
| inputs = processor(text=prompt, images=[img], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device) | |
| with torch.no_grad(): | |
| generated = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256) | |
| print(processor.decode(generated[0], skip_special_tokens=True)) | |
| ``` | |
| --- | |
| ## 🧩 Key Features | |
| | Feature | Description | | |
| | -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| | 🖼️ High-Accuracy OCR | Extracts text from images, documents, and screenshots reliably. | | |
| | 🇹🇷 Multilingual Support | Works with 30+ languages including Turkish. | | |
| | ⚡ Lightweight & Efficient | Optimized for resource-constrained environments. | | |
| | 📄 Layout & Math Awareness | Handles tables, forms, and mathematical formulas. | | |
| | 🏢 Reliable Outputs | Suitable for enterprise document workflows. | | |
| --- | |
| ## 📐 Model Specifications | |
| | Specification | Details | | |
| | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| | **Base Model** | Qwen 3 | | |
| | **Parameters** | 8 Billion | | |
| | **Architecture** | Vision + Transformer (OCR LLM) | | |
| | **Modalities** | Image-to-text | | |
| | **Fine-Tuning** | OCR datasets with multilingual and math/tabular content | | |
| | **Optimizations** | Quantization-ready, FP16 support | | |
| | **Primary Focus** | Text extraction, document understanding, mathematical OCR | | |
| --- | |
| ## 🎯 Ideal Use Cases | |
| * Document digitization | |
| * Invoice & receipt processing | |
| * Multilingual OCR pipelines | |
| * Tables, forms, and formulas extraction | |
| * Enterprise document management | |
| --- | |
| ## 📄 License | |
| MIT License — free for commercial & non-commercial use. | |
| --- | |
| ## 📞 Contact & Support | |
| * 📧 Email: [lamapicontact@gmail.com](mailto:lamapicontact@gmail.com) | |
| * 🤗 HuggingFace: [Lamapi](https://huggingface.co/Lamapi) | |
| --- | |
| > **Next OCR** — Compact *OCR + math-capable* AI, blending **accuracy**, **speed**, and **multilingual document intelligence**. | |
| [](https://huggingface.co/Lamapi) |