Falcon OCR
Falcon-OCR is an open-source optical character recognition (OCR) model designed for extracting text from images. It supports deployment via Docker and Python libraries, and is suitable for developers and ML engineers needing robust OCR capabilities. The model is MIT licensed and provides benchmarked performance.
Overview
5 featuresFalcon OCR sits in PulseGate's Multimodal & vision category. It focuses on extracting text from images using an open-source, high-accuracy OCR model. It is built as an open-source project for machine learning engineers and developers. Falcon OCR is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Falcon OCR is available on the web, the command line, and API, and it can be self-hosted.
tiiuae builds and maintains Falcon OCR, and it first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 726 stars and 13 commits in the last 90 days. Among its 5 catalogued features are OCR extraction, image-to-text, and docker support.
Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.
- OCR extraction
- Image-to-text
- Docker support
- Transformers compatible
- Benchmark results
Built with & integrations
- AWS
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- multiple
- bLlamaIndex in the HTML
- local_oss
- bvllm in the HTML
Trust & compliance
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Frequently asked questions about Falcon OCR
- What does Falcon OCR do?
- Falcon OCR focuses on extracting text from images using an open-source, high-accuracy OCR model. It is catalogued under Multimodal & vision on PulseGate.
- Who should use Falcon OCR?
- Falcon OCR is an open-source project built for machine learning engineers and developers.
- Is Falcon OCR free?
- Yes — Falcon OCR is open source under the Apache-2.0 license and free to use.
- What platforms does Falcon OCR run on?
- Falcon OCR runs on the web, the command line, and API. It can also be self-hosted.
- Is Falcon OCR still active?
- The GitHub repository shows 13 commits in the last 90 days.
- What projects are similar to Falcon OCR?
- Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Tesseract OCR, Falcon 7b, and HunyuanOCR.Tesseract OCRFalcon 7bHunyuanOCR
- Who makes Falcon OCR?
- Falcon OCR is developed by tiiuae.
- When did Falcon OCR launch?
- Falcon OCR first shipped in 2026.
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