LightOnOCR-2 1B

Name: LightOnOCR-2 1B
Author: LightOn

LightOn · released 2026-01-16 · data checked 2026-11-06

LightOnOCR-2 1B is a 1B-parameter OCR and document-parsing model from LightOn (FR), released 2026-01-16 under the Apache-2.0 license. It scores 83.2 on olmOCR-Bench (#9 of 24). It needs about 3 GB of memory at 16-bit.

OmniDocBench v1.6

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Not reported

olmOCR-Bench

83.2

#9 of 24 models

Parameters

OCR specialist

Memory to run

~3 GB

16-bit weights plus about 1 GB

Benchmarks

olmOCR-Bench Lab-reported83.2

Headers and footers excluded. Best: OXR 1.0 87.8

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Specifications

Lab: LightOn (FR)
Type: OCR / document parsing specialist
Total parameters: 1B
License: Apache-2.0
Memory to run: ~3 GB at 16-bit
Released: 2026-01-16

Weights and usage on Hugging Face ↗

Closest alternatives

jina-ocr-v1 (3.4B, 83.4 on olmOCR-Bench, CC-BY-NC-4.0)
MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 (1.3B, 82.7 on olmOCR-Bench, Apache-2.0)
dots.mocr (3B, 83.9 on olmOCR-Bench, MIT)
Falcon OCR 1.5 (270M, 82.4 on olmOCR-Bench, Apache-2.0)

Sources

https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B

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