New MLX backend

Improved Sparrow backend with upgraded MLX libs, new Mistral 3.2 model and improved UI.

Data Annotation Support

Enhanced document processing with bounding box annotations and visual coordinate extraction for precise field location tracking.

LLM instruction calling

Microservice approach for LLM request processing with instruction calling

Sparrow UI Dashboard

Added dashboard to Sparrow UI to visualize system performance

Free tier and new vision backend models

Sparrow is updated with new free tier functionality for https://sparrow.katanaml.io/. New vision backend models are integrated, such as Mistral Small 3.1 and Qwen 2.5 72B

Sparrow Agent

Added Sparrow Agent functionality to orchestrate complex document processing tasks. This new component allows you to combine multiple data extraction operations into a single workflow with visual monitoring and tracking through Prefect integration. Users can now process documents through an intuitive API that handles classification, extraction, and validation in one seamless pipeline.

Image Cropping and UI Shell updates

Implemented image cropping, this is useful for form pages, to reduce overall image size. Add various UI improvements to Sparrow UI Shell, enabled better logging

This release brings Sparrow deployment on local Mac Mini M4 Pro 64GB machine - https://sparrow.katanaml.io

Table processing

Added support auto detect tables and send cropped table images for inference

Multi-page PDF document support

Added support for multi-page PDF document through CMD and API

Dependencies cleanup

Removed dependencies to LlamaIndex, Haystack, Unstructured and other libraries, as main Sparrow focus is on Sparrow Parse