Foundry Local is a local AI runtime that embeds into apps via package managers as a ~20MB native library. Built on ONNX Runtime with automatic GPU/NPU selection, it runs Phi, Qwen, Mistral and more offline through an OpenAI-compatible API.
Bundling NDLOCR-Lite's DEIMv2 + PARSeq with ONNX Runtime Mobile in an iOS app to run camera capture → perspective correction → layout detection → text recognition → confidence-based correction entirely on device.
