lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B

image-text-to-text model by lightonai

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[](https://lighton.ai) [](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lighton/) [](https://x.com/LightOnIO) 📄 Paper | 📝 Blog | 🚀 Demo | 📊 Dataset | 📓 Finetuning Best OCR model . LightOnOCR-2-1B is LightOn's flagship OCR model, refined with RLVR training for maximum accuracy. We recommend this variant for most OCR tasks. LightOnOCR-2 is an efficient end-to-end 1B-parameter vision-language model for converting documents (PDFs, scans, images) into clean, naturally ordered text without relying on brittle pipelines. This second version is trained on a larger and higher-quality corpus with stronger French, arXiv, and scan coverage, improved LaTeX handling, and cleaner normalization. LightOnOCR-2 achieves state-of-the-art performance on OlmOCR-Bench while being 9× smaller…

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  1. LightOnOCR-2-1B
  2. About LightOnOCR-2
  3. Highlights
  4. Model Variants
  5. Benchmarks
  6. Usage with Transformers
  7. Usage with vLLM
  8. Rendering and Preprocessing Tips
  9. Fine-tuning
  10. License
  11. Acknowlegments
  12. Citation

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lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B is a image-text-to-text model repository published by lightonai on Hugging Face. The source reports the transformers library.

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Task
image-text-to-text
Library
transformers
Recent downloads (30 days)
728,828
Cumulative likes
850
Hugging Face trending score
3
Reported safetensors parameters
1,005,647,872
Architecture
LightOnOCRForConditionalGeneration
License
apache-2.0
Access
Not gated by Hugging Face
Created
2026-01-16T16:00:31.000Z
Last modified
2026-10-08T20:35:53.000Z

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Reported languages: en, fr, de, es, it, nl, pt, sv, da, zh, ja

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