LightOnOCR-3-4B-GGUF
LightOnOCR-3-4B, developed by lightonai, is the largest and most accurate model in the LightOnOCR-3 family of end-to-end OCR vision-language models, built on the Qwen3.5-4B architecture and released under the Apache 2.0 license. Recommended for most OCR tasks, it serves as a powerful, single-model alternative to complex document understanding pipelines by combining high-quality text transcription (triggered by an empty prompt) with advanced visual understanding features. When used with the
groundingprompt, the model outputs labeled bounding boxes for all document elements, generates short descriptions for images, and extracts numerical data from charts into structured HTML tables. Highly versatile and optimized for seamless integration with Transformers and vLLM, it excels at processing complex layouts—including tables, receipts, forms, multi-column documents, and math notation—and performs best when documents are preprocessed at 400 DPI with a target longest dimension of 2048px.
- Speculative Decoding — No
Model Files
| File Name | Quant Type | File Size | File Link | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.BF16.gguf | BF16 | 8.42 GB | Link | Full BF16 weights. Highest quality, largest file size. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q3_K_L.gguf | Q3_K_L | 2.42 GB | Link | Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q3_K_M.gguf | Q3_K_M | 2.26 GB | Link | Low quality. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | 2.71 GB | Link | Good quality, default size for most use cases, recommended. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q4_K_S.gguf | Q4_K_S | 2.56 GB | Link | Slightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q5_K_M.gguf | Q5_K_M | 3.07 GB | Link | High quality, recommended. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q5_K_S.gguf | Q5_K_S | 2.99 GB | Link | High quality, recommended. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q6_K.gguf | Q6_K | 3.46 GB | Link | Very high quality, near perfect, recommended. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.Q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | 4.48 GB | Link | Extremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.mmproj-bf16.gguf | mmproj-bf16 | 676 MB | Link | Multimodal projection file in BF16 format. Used for vision/language models. |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B.mmproj-q8_0.gguf | mmproj-q8_0 | 367 MB | Link | Multimodal projection file in Q8_0 quantization. Smaller size for vision capabilities. |
llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++ — https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp