# Hugging Face — SOTA OCR with Core ML and dots.ocr

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-10-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: dots.ocr
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/dots-ocr-ne
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1609-sota-ocr-with-core-ml-and-dots-ocr

Hugging Face posts a guide explaining how to convert the 3B parameter OCR model dots.ocr to run on Apple devices using Core ML and MLX, highlighting its on-device performance and power efficiency compared to cloud-based alternatives.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/dots-ocr-ne:

> In this three part series, we will provide a reasoning trace of how we converted dots.ocr to run on-device, using a combination of CoreML and MLX.

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