LightOnOCR-2-1B: lightweight open-source OCR model tops 3M downloads on Hugging Face
adnan_hashmi · x · 2026-08-19
LightOn's LightOnOCR-2-1B is a lightweight, end-to-end OCR model family, open-sourced on Hugging Face (lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B) as an image-text-to-text model. It has racked up over 3.13M downloads and 795 likes. On LlamaIndex's ParseBench benchmark it scores a Mean of 48 (rank 13), competing with much larger document-parsing models — a strong pick for local, low-cost document parsing deployments.
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