Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
qwen3_5
ocr
document-understanding
visual-grounding
vision-language
tables
forms
conversational
Eval Results
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Instructions to use lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B", device_map="auto") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B
- SGLang
How to use lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B
Download .eval_results/parsebench.yaml from lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B: direct link, hf CLI and curl.
- Browser
- Download file 1.31 kB
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https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B/resolve/main/.eval_results/parsebench.yaml
- Command line
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hf download hf://lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B/.eval_results/parsebench.yaml
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curl -L -o parsebench.yaml https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-4B/resolve/main/.eval_results/parsebench.yaml
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| - dataset: | |
| id: llamaindex/ParseBench | |
| task_id: mean | |
| value: 75.1 | |
| date: '2026-10-08' | |
| source: | |
| url: https://huggingface.co/blog/lightonai/lightonocr-3 | |
| name: LightOnOCR-3 results | |
| user: staghado | |
| - dataset: | |
| id: llamaindex/ParseBench | |
| task_id: table | |
| value: 83.8 | |
| date: '2026-10-08' | |
| source: | |
| url: https://huggingface.co/blog/lightonai/lightonocr-3 | |
| name: LightOnOCR-3 results | |
| user: staghado | |
| - dataset: | |
| id: llamaindex/ParseBench | |
| task_id: chart | |
| value: 66.1 | |
| date: '2026-10-08' | |
| source: | |
| url: https://huggingface.co/blog/lightonai/lightonocr-3 | |
| name: LightOnOCR-3 results | |
| user: staghado | |
| - dataset: | |
| id: llamaindex/ParseBench | |
| task_id: text_content | |
| value: 89.9 | |
| date: '2026-10-08' | |
| source: | |
| url: https://huggingface.co/blog/lightonai/lightonocr-3 | |
| name: LightOnOCR-3 results | |
| user: staghado | |
| - dataset: | |
| id: llamaindex/ParseBench | |
| task_id: text_formatting | |
| value: 67.6 | |
| date: '2026-10-08' | |
| source: | |
| url: https://huggingface.co/blog/lightonai/lightonocr-3 | |
| name: LightOnOCR-3 results | |
| user: staghado | |
| - dataset: | |
| id: llamaindex/ParseBench | |
| task_id: layout | |
| value: 68.3 | |
| date: '2026-10-08' | |
| source: | |
| url: https://huggingface.co/blog/lightonai/lightonocr-3 | |
| name: LightOnOCR-3 results | |
| user: staghado | |