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Running MiniCPM-V 1B fully offline on iPhone to read receipts and photos: what works and what doesn't

I've been testing OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B on iPhone, fully on-device with no network. It handles receipts, screenshots and short documents surprisingly well for its size. Small text and dense tables are where it struggles. Bigger vision models crash on phones because of memory, while the 1B one…

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  1. 2026-10-15 15:36 · r/LocalLLM
    Running MiniCPM-V 1B fully offline on iPhone to read receipts and photos: what works and what doesn't

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