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LightOn joins the OCR mania We release a 1B model achieving SOTA results while being much faster than all the recent releases It is also an end-to-end trainable solution for easy adaptation to your specific domains We also share interesting insights (and soon the dataset!)

The recipe for a fast, performant OCR model: 1. tell Said that OCR is solved 2. let him rage about the state of OCR 3. get a few smart people in a GMeet with him 4. tell them there are GPUs available 5. wait a bit 6. enjoy🦉 Soon deployed in your favorite Enterprise environments

Last few days have been insane in the OCR land with releases from DeepSeek, PaddlePaddle and others. Now we at LightOn are entering the game with our latest release, pushing the state of the art even further. Kudos staghado Baptiste Aubertin Adrien Cavaillès 🥳

Vibe checks of the new LightOn OCR model on some 20th Century digitised books (from National Library of Scotland). This collection has existing OCR (turns out OCR was a thing before VLMs 😜) Vs the old OCR: Paragraph structure better maintained

🦉LightOnOCR has landed in llama.cpp! thanks to Xuan-Son Nguyen for the quick integration! github.com/ggml-org/llama…

Talk from my LightOn buddy Amélie Chatelain next week with Weights & Biases in London. Fresh perspective of the cost of LLM at scale when feeding decent amount of context in their prompt I'll don't spoil the moral of the story but retrieval might be helpful there

So cool! A strong late interaction (ColBERT) model that beats strong late interaction models!

This is very very cool, pushing the boundaries of late-interaction models

I suggest following LightOn on HF, you might get cool stealth contributions such as this one 😇 huggingface.co/lightonai

It will be released in a near period of time, we are cooking right now

A Halloween gift 🎃 New finetuning notebook for LightOnOCR-1B: • Supports both Full and LoRA training • Supports FineVision 🤗 subsets incl. OlmOCR-mix & handwritten IAM • ~12 min/epoch on one H100 (can also runs on Colab!)