Falcon OCR 1.5

Name: Falcon OCR 1.5
Author: TII

TII · released 2026-09-11 · data checked 2026-11-06

Falcon OCR 1.5 is a 270M-parameter OCR and document-parsing model from TII (AE), released 2026-09-11 under the Apache-2.0 license. It scores 82.4 on olmOCR-Bench (#11 of 24). It needs about 1.5 GB of memory at 16-bit.

Only 270M parameters. The OmniDocBench scores on its card don't state a version (86.47 end-to-end, 93.15 with its layout pipeline).

OmniDocBench v1.6

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Not reported

olmOCR-Bench

82.4

#11 of 24 models

Parameters

270M

OCR specialist

Memory to run

~1.5 GB

16-bit weights plus about 1 GB

Benchmarks

olmOCR-Bench Lab-reported82.4

End-to-end mode. Best: OXR 1.0 87.8

The tick marks the best score on each benchmark. See how to read the ranking.

Specifications

Lab: TII (AE)
Type: OCR / document parsing specialist
Total parameters: 270M
License: Apache-2.0
Memory to run: ~1.5 GB at 16-bit
Released: 2026-09-11

Weights and usage on Hugging Face ↗

Closest alternatives

olmOCR 2 (8.3B, 82.4 on olmOCR-Bench, Apache-2.0)
MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 (1.3B, 82.7 on olmOCR-Bench, Apache-2.0)
LightOnOCR-2 1B (1B, 83.2 on olmOCR-Bench, Apache-2.0)
jina-ocr-v1 (3.4B, 83.4 on olmOCR-Bench, CC-BY-NC-4.0)

Sources

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-OCR

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