Full BF16 version of the model. We recommend this variant for inference and further fine-tuning. LightOnOCR-1B is a compact, end-to-end vision–language model for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and document understanding. It achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in its weight class while being several times faster and cheaper than larger general-purpose VLMs. Highlights LightOnOCR combines a Vision Transformer encoder(Pixtral-based) with a lightweight text decoder(Qwen3-based) distilled from high-quality open VLMs. It is optimized for document parsing tasks, producing accurate, layout-aware text extraction from high-resolution pages. All benchmarks evaluated using vLLM on the Olmo-Bench.…