diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 8ba3788814..db119a2770 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -6032,6 +6032,7 @@ class DeepseekOCRVisionModel(MmprojModel):
         sam_hparams = hparams['sam']
         self.gguf_writer.add_vision_sam_layers_count(sam_hparams['layers'])
         self.gguf_writer.add_vision_sam_embedding_length(sam_hparams['width'])
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_sam_head_count(sam_hparams['heads'])
 
     def get_vision_config(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
         vision_config: dict[str, Any] | None = self.global_config.get("vision_config")
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index 9fa88bab2b..c8a1ea805f 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ class Keys:
         class SAM:
             BLOCK_COUNT         = "clip.vision.sam.block_count"
             EMBEDDING_LENGTH    = "clip.vision.sam.embedding_length"
+            HEAD_COUNT          = "clip.vision.sam.head_count"
 
     class ClipAudio:
         NUM_MEL_BINS        = "clip.audio.num_mel_bins"
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
index 95de763628..1e10af5f9f 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
@@ -1135,6 +1135,9 @@ class GGUFWriter:
 
     def add_vision_sam_embedding_length(self, value: int) -> None:
         self.add_uint32(Keys.ClipVision.SAM.EMBEDDING_LENGTH, value)
+        
+    def add_vision_sam_head_count(self, value: int) -> None:
+        self.add_uint32(Keys.ClipVision.SAM.HEAD_COUNT, value)
 
     # audio models
 
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h b/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
index b8bf5ac899..a90e67f360 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@
 #define KEY_ATTN_WINDOW_SIZE      "clip.vision.window_size"
 #define KEY_MINICPMV_VERSION      "clip.minicpmv_version"
 #define KEY_MINICPMV_QUERY_NUM    "clip.minicpmv_query_num"
-
+#define KEY_SAM_N_HEAD            "clip.vision.sam.head_count"
+#define KEY_SAM_N_BLOCK           "clip.vision.sam.block_count"
+#define KEY_SAM_N_EMBD            "clip.vision.sam.embedding_length"  
 // audio-specific
 #define KEY_AUDIO_PROJ_TYPE     "clip.audio.projector_type" // for models with mixed modalities
 #define KEY_A_NUM_MEL_BINS      "clip.audio.num_mel_bins"
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
index 02526da02a..bca08b745f 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
@@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ struct clip_hparams {
     int32_t attn_window_size = 0;
     int32_t n_wa_pattern = 0;
 
+    // deepseek-ocr (sam)
+    int32_t sam_n_layer = 0;
+    int32_t sam_n_head = 0;
+    int32_t sam_n_embd = 0;
+
     // audio
     int32_t n_mel_bins = 0; // whisper preprocessor
     int32_t proj_stack_factor = 0; // ultravox
@@ -2676,9 +2681,9 @@ private:
     }
 
     ggml_tensor * build_sam(ggml_tensor * inp_raw) {
-        const int n_embd  = 768;
-        const int _depth  = 12;
-        const int n_heads = 12;
+        const int n_embd  = hparams.sam_n_embd;
+        const int n_layer = hparams.sam_n_layer;
+        const int n_heads = hparams.sam_n_head;
         const int d_heads = n_embd / n_heads;
         const int window = hparams.attn_window_size;
 
@@ -2721,7 +2726,7 @@ private:
         }
 
         // loop over layers
-        for (int il = 0; il < _depth; il++) {
+        for (int il = 0; il < n_layer; il++) {
             auto & layer = model.sam_layers[il];
             ggml_tensor * shortcut = cur;
 
@@ -3286,6 +3291,10 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                         hparams.patch_size = 16;
                         hparams.image_size = 1024;
                         hparams.warmup_image_size = 1024;
+                        
+                        get_u32(KEY_SAM_N_BLOCK, hparams.sam_n_layer, true);
+                        get_u32(KEY_SAM_N_HEAD, hparams.sam_n_head, true);
+                        get_u32(KEY_SAM_N_EMBD, hparams.sam_n_embd, true);
                         get_u32(KEY_ATTN_WINDOW_SIZE, hparams.attn_window_size, true);
                     } break;
                 default: