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IBM Releases Granite-Docling-258M, a Lightweight Vision-Language Model for Precise Document Conversion
# IBM Introduces Granite-Docling-258M: Lightweight, High-Fidelity Document Conversion ## Overview IBM Research has launched **[Granite-Docling-258M](https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/granite-docling-end-to-end-document-conversion)** — an open-source vision-language model (VLM) tailored for **accurate document-to-text conversion** while preserving **complex layouts**, tables, equations, and lists. With only **258M parameters**, it rivals models many times its size, delivering