Behind a Firewall: how to download models?

[vlavorini]

Question

I am behind a firewall that blocks the Huggingface website, so I cannot download the relative models.

How can I overcome this issue? An alternative way of having the models?

Thank you

[dolfim-ibm]

We are just about to release a CLI which allows to download all the artifacts needed at runtime. See #876.

The easiest way would be to download the artifacts from an open network and then transfer the folder in your restricted environment.

[simonschoe]

@dolfim-ibm I am on docling 2.20.0 but still have to specify pipeline_options.artifacts_path = ".../docling-models". From the docs I inferred that the route should have been deprecated and pointing to one folder above docling_models should be sufficient (e.g., models with subfolders docling-models, CodeFormula, etc). Am I missing something here?

[dolfim-ibm]

Your understanding is correct. The folder of artifacts_path should look something like this:

$ ls -1 ~/.cache/docling/models
EasyOcr
HuggingFaceTB--SmolVLM-256M-Instruct
ds4sd--CodeFormula
ds4sd--DocumentFigureClassifier
ds4sd--docling-models