PaliGemma

PaliGemma pairs a compact Gemma language decoder with a high-quality vision encoder to natively “look and read.” It ingests one or more images alongside a prompt and produces grounded, step-by-step text responses—captions, answers, summaries, or structured outputs (Markdown/JSON). It’s instruction-tuned for practical tasks like document OCR and extraction, table/chart interpretation, form understanding, diagram reasoning, and screenshot/UX analysis.
Designed for real apps, PaliGemma is easy to adapt with LoRA or full fine-tuning, integrates cleanly into RAG and agent pipelines (e.g., crop → read → reason), and performs well on a single modern GPU with 8/4-bit quantization options for smaller footprints. Typical uses include enterprise document automation, analytics over dashboards, accessibility (image descriptions), and developer assistants that reason directly from screenshots—bringing reliable visual understanding to the Gemma ecosystem without heavy infrastructure.