LightOn releases LightOnOCR-3, a world-leading model family for document intelligence.

Press release Paris, 08 October 2026 LightOn releases LightOnOCR-3, a world-leading model family for document intelligence LightOn introduces LightOnOCR-3, a family of AI models that delivers world-leading benchmark results, ahead of competing US and Chinese models, with state-of-the-art performance on French-language documents and handwriting.

Building on LightOnOCR-2, it goes beyond text recognition to describe images, extract data from charts and preserve document structure.

World-leading performance on document recognition benchmarks Building on the success of LightOnOCR-2, which sees 240,000 monthly downloads on Hugging Face, LightOn today introduces LightOnOCR-3, a new generation that extends its document intelligence capabilities.

When document processing captures only text, some of that information is lost, limiting what AI applications can retrieve and use.

With their compact size, LightOnOCR-3 models are among the fastest on the market: they can process documents up to twice as fast as LightOnOCR-2.