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Granite-Docling 258M

IBM · released 2025-09-17 · data checked 2026-11-06

Granite-Docling 258M is a 260M-parameter OCR and document-parsing model from IBM (US), released 2025-09-17 under the Apache-2.0 license. It has no published score on OmniDocBench v1.6 or olmOCR-Bench yet. It needs about 1.5 GB of memory at 16-bit.

Tiny document converter for the Docling toolkit (DocTags output). Not scored on OmniDocBench v1.6 or olmOCR-Bench.

OmniDocBench v1.6
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Not reported
olmOCR-Bench
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Not reported
Parameters
260M
OCR specialist
Memory to run
~1.5 GB
16-bit weights plus about 1 GB

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Specifications

Lab
IBM (US)
Type
OCR / document parsing specialist
Total parameters
260M
License
Apache-2.0
Memory to run
~1.5 GB at 16-bit
Released
2025-09-17

Closest alternatives

  • OXR 1.0 (1.5B, 97.03 on OmniDocBench, OXR Open Source License)
  • Youtu-Parsing-Omni (5.3B, 96.96 on OmniDocBench, Youtu-Parsing license)
  • TeleOCR (1.4B, 96.91 on OmniDocBench, Apache-2.0)
  • Xiaomi-OCR-0 (870M, 96.83 on OmniDocBench, Apache-2.0)

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