Image and document understanding
Models and tools that read images, screenshots, scanned pages or documents and answer questions about them or pull out their text. This page lists 32 image and document understanding projects; the latest additions are LFM3-Omni-2B and Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- Unlimited-OCR Read text from page images and whole PDFs in one pass
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- ai-agent-book Learn how AI agents work from a free book with 109 experiments
A complete book on building AI agents, published free and in the open by Bojie Li, organised around one formula: an agent is a language model plus context plus tools.
- Transformers Load and run almost any open AI model from one Python library
The Python library that defines how open models are written down, covering text, images, audio, video and combinations of them, for both running a model and training one.
- openjev Score whether one statement follows from another, in any task
A cross-encoder — a model that reads two pieces of text together and judges their relationship — built by further training Qwen3.5.
- JEV-35B Rank news and search results with a decision model
JEV-35B evaluates up to 256 options in one pass.
- Unlimited-OCR Download and run the Baidu OCR model on page images and PDFs
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- Unlimited-OCR-2 Turn long multi-page documents into text
Convert page images of long documents into text, with all pages read together in one request.
- Clef Score structured decisions with Clef
Ask yes-or-no, multiple-choice or rating questions about a piece of text, JSON, an image or a video, and get a probability for every allowed answer.
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Give a model a million tokens of text and images at once
Give a model up to a million tokens of text and images in one go, such as a long agent session or a large pile of input, and get text back.
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Format chats with its Python encoder
Use its Python encoder to format text and image chats, then run the model and get written replies.
- EmbeddingGemma 2 Search text, images, audio and video in one shared space
A 740-million-parameter embedding model from Google DeepMind that turns text, code, images, video and audio into vectors in one shared 768-dimensional space.
- Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF Run Qwen’s 27B vision model in Ollama at a size you pick
Run Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter model that reads images and text, on your own computer at a file size you choose.
- humanizer Rewrite AI-written drafts so they read like a person (12B)
Paste an AI-written email, essay or report and get a rewrite that reads more naturally, offline; for people writing in English or Chinese.
- LFM3-Omni-2B Ask about photos, video and speech by voice (2.17B)
For developers building voice apps: LFM3-Omni-2B answers questions about photos, video and audio, and replies in text, speech or both.
- Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B Ask about screenshots, charts and code bugs
Send a screenshot, chart or document and get a written explanation, or hand it a bug to fix.
- MiniMax-H3 Make short videos with synced sound from text or images
Generate 4–15 second videos with built-in stereo sound from text, images, video or audio, through an online API, web app or desktop app.
- Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B Chat, code and ask about images (1T, 52B active)
Ask questions about text, images and documents, write code, and get replies in a fixed data format.
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-BF16 Ask about images and video
Send text, images or video and get written answers.
- NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16 Ask about documents and video
Ask questions about document images, pictures and video and get text answers; it needs NVIDIA GPU servers, so it suits developers.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP4-Local Answer questions about images and video (125B)
Ask questions about text, images, or video and receive text responses.
- MiniCPM-OCR-1.0 Turn scans and PDFs into editable text (1.3B)
Turn photos, scans and PDFs of Chinese or English documents into editable text, tables and formulas.
- MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B Ask about images and video on phones
Ask questions about one image, several images or a video and get text answers.
- Qwen3.8-27B Run a 27B model that reads images and video yourself
Run a 27-billion-parameter model that reads text, images and video and writes text back, on hardware you control.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Try the architecture behind Qwen4 as an open preview
An experimental preview of the architecture Alibaba intends to build its next model generation on, released with open weights.
- ZDTaichu5.0-9B A 9B vision model built for spatial reasoning and robot planning
ZDTaichu5.0-9B is a 9-billion-parameter vision-language model, meaning it reads images, video and text together.
- Swift-Qwen3.8-27B Get answers from a 27B model with less thinking-out-loud
Get answers from a 27-billion-parameter reasoning model that spends less time thinking to itself before replying.
- Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF Get the same answers from a 27B model with half the thinking
A compressed, ready-to-run version of Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, which is Qwen3.8-27B adjusted to reach its answers with far less internal deliberation.
- MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B A smaller 9B agent model distilled from a larger Xiaomi model
MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B is a 9-billion-parameter model made by fine-tuning Qwen3.5-9B on data generated by Xiaomi's larger MiMo-V2.6 models, a technique called distillation where a smaller model is trained to imitate a bigger one's outputs rather than being trained on raw internet text from scratch.
- MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL Use Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6's efficiency-balanced model for agent work
Give one model text, images, video or audio, with up to a million tokens of context such as a whole code repository or a long tool log, and get text back for coding and agent work.
- MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL A large model trained on coding, agents, vision and security tasks at once
MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL is Xiaomi's flagship model in the MiMo-V2.6 family, reading and generating text, images, video and audio in one model with a 1-million-token context for handling large codebases or long multi-session agent work.
- TeleOCR Turn document scans and photos into structured text
TeleOCR is a vision-language model of about 1.2 billion parameters (learned settings) for reading documents.
- GLM-5.3-Flash Ask questions about images and text (320B)
Ask a model questions about text or images and read written answers, through the Z.ai API or on your own servers.
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