Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Improving Qwen-VL Structured Output with Image Cropping

Explaining how I'm improving structured output results from Qwen-VL with image cropping in Sparrow.
 
 

Monday, January 20, 2025

Apple MLX Vision LLM Server with Ngrok, FastAPI and Sparrow

I show how I run Apple MLX backend on my local Mac Mini M4 Pro 64GB and access it from the Web through Ngrok, with automatically provisioned HTTPS certificate. 

 

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Vision LLM Structured Output with Sparrow

I show how Sparrow UI Shell works with both image and PDF docs to process and extract structured data with Vision LLM (Qwen2) in the MLX backend. 

 

Monday, December 23, 2024

Stateless MLX Inference with FastAPI in Sparrow

I show how to run inference with MLX in stateless mode, when loaded model is released after inference completes. This is useful when inference requests are less frequent and it helps to reclaim resources reserved by MLX.

 

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Streamlined Table Data Extraction with Sparrow | Table Transformer, Qwen2 VL, MLX, & Mac Mini M4 Pro

Learn how to streamline table data extraction with Sparrow, Table Transformer, Qwen2 VL, and MLX on the Mac Mini M4 Pro. Simplify your workflow and get accurate results! 

 

Monday, December 9, 2024

Structured Output from Multipage PDF with Sparrow (Qwen2 Vision LLM and MLX)

I explain how multipage PDFs are handled in Sparrow to extract structured data in a single call. 

 

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sparrow Apple MLX Backend on Mac Mini M4 (Qwen2 72B 4bit)

I show how I’m running the Qwen2 72B 4bit model locally on a Mac Mini M4 for Sparrow’s backend. MLX (and MLX-VLM) is the main platform I’m using for local data extraction in Sparrow.