TII ships Falcon OCR 1.5, a 270M open model for handwriting, receipts and scene text
griffintaur · x · 2026-09-11
Abu Dhabi's TII released Falcon OCR 1.5, a 270M-parameter open OCR model. Where v1 crushed academic PDFs, v1.5 extends to historical scans, handwriting, receipts, and scene text with less hallucination.
Live on Hugging Face (image-to-text) with 43k+ downloads. It scores 80.3 overall on olmOCR-bench (English subset) and 80.5 on arxivmath, ranking near the top of the sub-1B size class.
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