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LatestNVIDIA3.5 Parse
NVIDIAVision-Language

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Parse Targets Document OCR

A new vision-language model from NVIDIA is tuned specifically for reading and structuring documents rather than general chat.

Sep 3, 2026
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Nemotron 3.5 Parse

NVIDIA has published Nemotron 3.5 Parse, a vision-language model built for a focused job: reading documents and turning their visual layout into structured, machine-usable text. The model is available on Hugging Face under a custom NVIDIA license.

Unlike general-purpose multimodal chat models, this release is positioned squarely around optical character recognition and document parsing. That makes it a tool for extracting text, tables, and layout from scanned pages, PDFs, and images rather than for open-ended conversation.

Why it matters

Document understanding is one of the most practical and commercially valuable corners of the AI stack. Enterprises process invoices, forms, contracts, and reports at scale, and accurate parsing is often the bottleneck before any downstream automation can happen.

  • Specialized for OCR and structured document extraction
  • Vision-language architecture, so it reasons over page layout as well as text
  • Distributed openly on Hugging Face for developers to test and integrate

By releasing a parsing-focused model under the Nemotron banner, NVIDIA is extending its family into a niche where precision matters more than breadth. Teams evaluating it should check the license terms and run their own benchmarks against existing OCR pipelines, since NVIDIA has not published detailed parameter counts or context specifications with this initial listing.

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Specs

Context window16K tokens
Size2.5 GB
PrecisionFP32
ArchitectureRadioMBartPrefixForCausalLM
LicenseOTHER
Downloads6.8K
Likes109

Can you run it?

Runs on just about anything.

  • FP32 (as published)

    Any modern laptop · 8 GB RAM

    3.7 GB
  • 16-bit

    Any modern laptop · 8 GB RAM

    2.4 GB
  • 8-bit

    Any modern laptop · 8 GB RAM

    1.8 GB
  • 4-bit

    Any modern laptop · 8 GB RAM

    1.5 GB
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  • KV cache sized for 8,192 tokens of context; longer prompts need proportionally more.

Based on Hugging Face weights metadata. Assumes an 8K context and ~1 GB runtime overhead; actual needs vary. How we estimate


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