TII Releases 0.27B-Param Falcon OCR 1.5, Scores 82.4 on olmOCR-Bench
HildeKuehne · x · 2026-09-12
TII has released Falcon OCR 1.5, a tiny 0.27B-parameter OCR model that scores 82.4 on olmOCR-Bench and 93.2 on OmniDocBench, with much lower hallucination rates and big gains on tables, handwriting, receipts and old scans.
Key techniques:
- New SFT data covering handwriting, aged scans, receipts and complex multi-table PDFs
- RL with rewards for edit distance, tables and formulas
- Dramatic end-to-end improvements across many categories
Weights, code and paper are all open-sourced; the team is soliciting community feedback.
Related event: TII's 270M Falcon OCR 1.5 Punches Far Above Its Weight(4 posts)→
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