diff --git a/src/eynollah/training/cli.py b/src/eynollah/training/cli.py
index ae14f04..ccabb82 100644
--- a/src/eynollah/training/cli.py
+++ b/src/eynollah/training/cli.py
@@ -7,17 +7,11 @@ import sys
 from .build_model_load_pretrained_weights_and_save import build_model_load_pretrained_weights_and_save
 from .generate_gt_for_training import main as generate_gt_cli
 from .inference import main as inference_cli
-from .train import ex
+from .train import train_cli
+from .convert import convert_cli
 from .extract_line_gt import linegt_cli
 from .weights_ensembling import ensemble_cli
 
-@click.command(context_settings=dict(
-        ignore_unknown_options=True,
-))
-@click.argument('SACRED_ARGS', nargs=-1, type=click.UNPROCESSED)
-def train_cli(sacred_args):
-    ex.run_commandline([sys.argv[0]] + list(sacred_args))
-
 @click.group('training')
 def main():
     pass
@@ -26,5 +20,6 @@ main.add_command(build_model_load_pretrained_weights_and_save)
 main.add_command(generate_gt_cli, 'generate-gt')
 main.add_command(inference_cli, 'inference')
 main.add_command(train_cli, 'train')
+main.add_command(convert_cli, 'convert')
 main.add_command(linegt_cli, 'export_textline_images_and_text')
 main.add_command(ensemble_cli, 'ensembling')
diff --git a/src/eynollah/training/convert.py b/src/eynollah/training/convert.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd4271f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/eynollah/training/convert.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copy2
+import logging
+
+import click
+
+@click.command(context_settings=dict(
+    help_option_names=['-h', '--help'],
+    show_default=True))
+@click.option(
+    "--rebuild",
+    "-r",
+    help="build new model from code and then load existing weights (requires input in SavedModel directory format with config.json present)",
+    is_flag=True
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--format",
+    "-f",
+    "format_",
+    help="data format to convert to",
+    type=click.Choice(["hdf5", "keras", "tf", "tf-serving", "onnx"]),
+    default="tf"
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--in",
+    "-i",
+    "in_",
+    help="path to input model (file in hdf5 / keras format, or directory in tf format)",
+    required=True,
+    type=click.Path(exists=True, dir_okay=True)
+)
+@click.option(
+    "--out",
+    "-o",
+    help="path to output model  (file in hdf5 / keras / onnx format, or directory in tf / tf-serving format)",
+    required=True,
+    type=click.Path(exists=False, dir_okay=True)
+)
+def convert_cli(rebuild, format_, in_, out):
+    """
+    convert models for inference
+
+    Load model from path, optionally by rebuilding, convert to output format and write model to path.
+    """
+    os.environ['TF_USE_LEGACY_KERAS'] = '1' # avoid Keras 3 after TF 2.15
+    from ocrd_utils import tf_disable_interactive_logs
+    tf_disable_interactive_logs()
+
+    import tensorflow as tf
+    from tensorflow.keras.models import load_model
+    from tensorflow.keras.models import Model as KerasModel
+    
+    model_path = Path(in_)
+    config_path = model_path / "config.json"
+    if model_path.is_dir():
+        assert (model_path / "keras_metadata.pb").exists(), (
+            "input directory must be Keras model in SavedModel format")
+    if rebuild:
+        from .train import ex
+        from .models import get_model
+
+        assert config_path.exists(), (
+            "rebuilding requires input model in SavedModel format with config.json")
+
+        # merge defaults with existing config file
+        ex.add_config(str(config_path))
+        # some models deviate between training and inference
+        ex.add_config(inference=True)
+        # just retrieve final config (via pseudo-run)
+        ex.main(lambda: 0)
+        config = ex.run(options={'--loglevel': 'ERROR'}).config
+        # use the config to capture the model builder
+        model = get_model(config, logging.root)
+        model.load_weights(model_path).assert_existing_objects_matched().expect_partial()
+    else:
+        model = load_model(model_path, compile=False)
+
+        if isinstance(model, KerasModel):
+            # cnn-rnn-ocr task deviates between training and inference
+            try:
+                model.get_layer(name='ctc_loss')
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+            else:
+                model = KerasModel(
+                    model.get_layer(name='image').input,
+                    model.get_layer(name='dense2').output)
+
+    if format_ in ["hdf5", "keras", "tf"]:
+        kwargs = {"save_format": {"hdf5": "h5"}.get(format_, format_)}
+        if format_ != "keras":
+            kwargs["include_optimizer"] = False
+        model.save(out, **kwargs)
+    elif format_ == "tf-serving":
+        model.export(out)
+    elif format_ == "onnx":
+        import tf2onnx
+        tf2onnx.convert.from_keras(model, opset=18, output_path=out)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("unknown output format '%s'" % format_)
+
+    # copy config.json if possible
+    if config_path.exists() and format_ in ['tf', 'tf-serving']:
+        copy2(config_path, Path(out) / config_path.name)
+
+        
diff --git a/src/eynollah/training/reload-models-v0.8.mk b/src/eynollah/training/reload-models-v0.8.mk
index 07be7cf..9855f0f 100644
--- a/src/eynollah/training/reload-models-v0.8.mk
+++ b/src/eynollah/training/reload-models-v0.8.mk
@@ -4,39 +4,65 @@ MODELS_SRC = models_eynollah
 MODELS_DST = reloaded/models_eynollah
 
 
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-binarization_20210425 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-column-classifier_20210425 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-enhancement_20210425 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-main-regions-aug-rotation_20210425 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-main-regions-aug-scaling_20210425 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-main-regions-ensembled_20210425 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-main-regions_20220314 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-main-regions_20231127_672_org_ens_11_13_16_17_18 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/eynollah-tables_20210319 \
-#	$(MODELS_DST)/model_eynollah_ocr_cnnrnn_20250930 \
+# eynollah-main-regions-aug-rotation_20210425
+# eynollah-main-regions-aug-scaling_20210425
+# eynollah-main-regions-ensembled_20210425
+# eynollah-main-regions_20220314
+# eynollah-main-regions_20231127_672_org_ens_11_13_16_17_18
+# eynollah-tables_20210319
 
-RELOADABLE_MODELS = \
-	$(MODELS_DST)/model_eynollah_page_extraction_20250915 \
-	$(MODELS_DST)/model_eynollah_reading_order_20250824 \
-	$(MODELS_DST)/modelens_e_l_all_sp_0_1_2_3_4_171024 \
-	$(MODELS_DST)/modelens_full_lay_1__4_3_091124 \
-	$(MODELS_DST)/modelens_table_0t4_201124 \
-	$(MODELS_DST)/modelens_textline_0_1__2_4_16092024
+CURRENT_MODELS := 
+CURRENT_MODELS += model_eynollah_page_extraction_20250915
+CURRENT_MODELS += model_eynollah_reading_order_20250824
+CURRENT_MODELS += modelens_e_l_all_sp_0_1_2_3_4_171024
+CURRENT_MODELS += modelens_full_lay_1__4_3_091124
+CURRENT_MODELS += modelens_table_0t4_201124
+CURRENT_MODELS += modelens_textline_0_1__2_4_16092024
+CURRENT_MODELS += model_eynollah_ocr_cnnrnn_20250930
+CURRENT_MODELS += eynollah-binarization_20210425
+CURRENT_MODELS += eynollah-column-classifier_20210425
+CURRENT_MODELS += eynollah-enhancement_20210425
 
-all: $(RELOADABLE_MODELS)
+all: tf-serving
+
+tf-serving: $(CURRENT_MODELS:%=$(MODELS_DST)/%)
+keras: $(CURRENT_MODELS:%=$(MODELS_DST)/%.keras)
+hdf5: $(CURRENT_MODELS:%=$(MODELS_DST)/%.h5)
+onnx: $(CURRENT_MODELS:%=$(MODELS_DST)/%.onnx)
 
 $(MODELS_DST)/%: $(MODELS_SRC)/%
-	test -e $</config.json || exit 1
-	{ mkdir -p $@ \
-	&& eynollah-training train --force \
-		with $</config.json \
-		reload_weights=True \
-		continue_training=False \
-		dir_output=$(dir $@) \
-		dir_of_start_model=$< \
-	&& cp $</config.json $@/config.json \
-	|| { rm -rf $@; false; }; } \
-	2>&1 | tee $(notdir $<).log
+	eynollah-training convert \
+		$(and $(wildcard $</config.json),--rebuild) \
+		--in $< \
+		--format tf-serving \
+		--out $@ \
+	2>&1 | tee $(notdir $<).tf-serving.log
+
+$(MODELS_DST)/%.keras: $(MODELS_SRC)/%
+	eynollah-training convert \
+		$(and $(wildcard $</config.json),--rebuild) \
+		--in $< \
+		--format keras \
+		--out $@ \
+	2>&1 | tee $(notdir $<).keras.log
+
+$(MODELS_DST)/%.h5: $(MODELS_SRC)/%
+	eynollah-training convert \
+		$(and $(wildcard $</config.json),--rebuild) \
+		--in $< \
+		--format hdf5 \
+		--out $@ \
+	2>&1 | tee $(notdir $<).hdf5.log
+
+$(MODELS_DST)/%.onnx: $(MODELS_SRC)/%
+	if jq -e '.task == "segmentation" and .backbone_type == "transformer"' $</config.json &>/dev/null; then \
+	echo skipping $@: vision transformer architecture currently does not work with ONNX; else \
+	eynollah-training convert \
+		$(and $(wildcard $</config.json),--rebuild) \
+		--in $< \
+		--format onnx \
+		--out $@ \
+	2>&1 | tee $(notdir $<).onnx.log; fi
 
 compare: 
 	for i in `find $(MODELS_DST) -mindepth 2`;do \
@@ -44,6 +70,5 @@ compare:
 		du -bs $$n $$i ; \
 	done
 
-
 clear:
 	rm -rf $(MODELS_DST)
diff --git a/src/eynollah/training/train.py b/src/eynollah/training/train.py
index f4cf08b..62d8e51 100644
--- a/src/eynollah/training/train.py
+++ b/src/eynollah/training/train.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 import io
 import json
+import click
 
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import requests
@@ -791,3 +792,23 @@ def run(_config,
             model_dir = os.path.join(dir_out,'model_best')
             model.save(model_dir)
         '''
+
+@click.command(context_settings=dict(
+        ignore_unknown_options=True,
+))
+@click.argument('SACRED_ARGS', nargs=-1, type=click.UNPROCESSED)
+def train_cli(sacred_args):
+    """
+    train model on extracted GT
+
+    SACRED_ARGS as per CLI interface of Sacred, cf.
+    https://sacred.readthedocs.io/en/stable/command_line.html:
+
+    \b
+    To configure the learning task, pass the string `with`,
+    followed by any number of
+    - config JSON file paths
+    - parameter overrides in the form of key=value
+    (where the later settings will override the former).
+    """
+    ex.run_commandline([sys.argv[0]] + list(sacred_args))
diff --git a/src/eynollah/training/weights_ensembling.py b/src/eynollah/training/weights_ensembling.py
index e3ede24..f651c56 100644
--- a/src/eynollah/training/weights_ensembling.py
+++ b/src/eynollah/training/weights_ensembling.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def run_ensembling(model_dirs, out_dir):
 @click.option(
     "--in",
     "-i",
+    "in_",
     help="input directory of checkpoint models to be read",
     multiple=True,
     required=True,