Comment by mkl

Qwen2.5-VL 7B is pretty impressive at turning printed or handwritten maths lecture notes into Latex code, and is small enough to run slowly on a laptop without enough VRAM. Gemma3 4B was useless at this though, and got stuck in loops or tried to solve the maths problems instead of just converting the working to Latex (but it was much faster as it fit into VRAM).

It sounds like you're trying to use them like ChatGPT, but I think that's not what they're for.