What are the hardware requirements for Dharma OCR LITE?

Dharma OCR LITE requires approximately 5.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Dharma OCR LITE and how large is it?

Dharma OCR LITE is developed by Dharma-AI, a model with 4.1b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Dharma OCR LITE?

Dharma OCR LITE is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Dharma OCR LITE by Dharma-AI — VRAM 5.3GB, 125K context

Name: Dharma OCR LITE
Author: Dharma-AI

Dharma OCR LITE is an open-source language model by Dharma-AI. Features: 4.1b LLM, VRAM: 5.3GB, Context: 125K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2604.14314 Brazilian-portuguese Compressed-tensors Conversational Dataset:dharma-ai/dharmaocr-be... Document-understanding Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Ocr Pt Qwen2 5 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Specialized-small-language-mod... Structured-extraction Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Dharma-AI/Dharma-OCR-LITE

Dharma OCR LITE Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Dharma OCR LITE
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Dharma-AI/Dharma-OCR-LITE
Model Size	4.1b
Required VRAM	5.3 GB
Updated	2026-09-21
Maintainer	Dharma-AI
Model Type	qwen2_5_vl
Model Files	4.7 GB: 1-of-2 0.6 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	pt
Model Architecture	Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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