Running Ideogram 4 Locally: Quantized Inference and Structured JSON Captions

The thing that finally got me to sit down with Ideogram 4 was the text rendering. Most image models treat text in a scene as decorative blur: you ask for a neon sign in Japanese and you get neon-sign-shaped noise. Ideogram has been good at in-image text for a while, and when they open-sourced the weights last week I wanted to know whether “good at text” survived the quantization-to-run-on-one-GPU…