lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B

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 | 💻 GitHub | 🤗 LightOnOCR-2-1B Smallest model. LightOnOCR-3-0.8B is the lightest model of LightOn's LightOnOCR-3 family, with the same layout and visual understanding features. LightOnOCR-3 is a new family of highly performant lightweight OCR models. Compared to the previous generation, they bring significant improvements in speed and transcription quality and introduce new visual understanding features: the models now output bounding box coordinates with labels for all visual elements of a document, short descriptions of images, and the numerical data of figures and charts. With these capabilities, they offer a ready-to-use, easier-to-maintain alternative to complex document understanding pipelines. The models come in three sizes. The 1B keeps the LightOnOCR-2-1B architecture, while the 0.8B and 4B adopt the Qwen3.5 vision-language architecture, which simplifies integration with existing tools and brings a significant speed-up. All models are released under the Apache 2.0…

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  2. About LightOnOCR-3
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  7. Usage with vLLM
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lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B 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)
3,009
Cumulative likes
65
Hugging Face trending score
63
Reported safetensors parameters
852,985,920
Architecture
Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License
apache-2.0
Access
Not gated by Hugging Face
Created
2026-10-07T10:23:52.000Z
Last modified
2026-10-09T10:27:57.000Z

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