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Medical NER (41 types) — entity recognition running in your browser

Medical NER (41 types) is a 184M-parameter ONNX model that tags spans of text as people, organisations, places or personal identifiers, with character offsets. On this page it runs entirely inside your browser: the 231 MB download comes straight from the Hugging Face repository “onnx-community/Medical-NER-ONNX” into your browser cache, and every inference after that executes on your own GPU through WebGPU. Expect a download of roughly a minute on a decent connection. It fits comfortably in the browser cache and in the memory of any GPU from the last few years, including laptop integrated graphics. It is an English-language model; expect quality to fall off sharply on other languages.

At a glance

Hugging Face repository
onnx-community/Medical-NER-ONNX
Task
Entity Recognition
Download size
231 MB
Parameters
184M
Precisions
q8, fp32
Monthly downloads
45
Languages
en
Runs on
WebGPU in your browser (WebAssembly fallback)
Price
Free — your GPU does the work

A DeBERTa-v3 tagger over 41 clinical types. It finds what the 84-type model finds, but reports it far less confidently — a second opinion, not a first choice. In practice people reach for a model like this for entity extraction and — more usefully — redacting personal data locally, before anything leaves the machine.

Available precisions: q8 (8-bit) and fp32 (full precision). q8 comes first because it roughly halves the download at a quality cost you will struggle to measure on this class of model; fp32 is there when you want the reference numbers. Hugging Face records about 45 downloads a month. It is a specialist choice rather than a default, which is exactly why it is worth trying when the popular model gets your particular input wrong.

Because there is no inference server behind this page, there is nothing to rate-limit and nothing to bill: the only cost of running Medical NER (41 types) here is the one-off 231 MB download, and once that is cached the page keeps working with the network switched off.

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Frequently asked questions

How large is the Medical NER (41 types) download?

About 231 MB for the q8 build, including the tokenizer and config files the runtime also has to fetch — this is the whole payload, not just the weights file. It is downloaded once and then served from the browser Cache Storage API.

Can Medical NER (41 types) run without a GPU?

Yes, through the WebAssembly fallback, which is slower but works anywhere. WebGPU (Chrome or Edge 113+, Safari 26+) is what makes it feel interactive. On WASM, prefer the smaller quantized build.

Do I need a Hugging Face token or an API key?

No. onnx-community/Medical-NER-ONNX is a public repository, so your browser fetches the ONNX files directly over HTTPS. There is no account, no key and no server in between.

Is my data uploaded to a server?

No. The model weights are downloaded from Hugging Face to your browser once, and every inference after that runs on your own GPU through WebGPU. Your text, images and audio are never sent anywhere — hjLabs.in has no inference server and no way to see your input.