LightOnOCR-3 open-sourced: one model for OCR, layout, image captions and chart extraction
IgorCarron · x · 2026-10-09
LightOn released LightOnOCR-3, going beyond plain OCR with a single model handling text transcription, document layout, image descriptions and chart extraction. Three sizes — 0.8B, 1B and 4B — are all open-sourced under Apache 2.0.
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