by lighton
LightOnOCR-3-0.8B is the smallest and fastest model in LightOn's open-weight LightOnOCR-3 family: an end-to-end OCR and document-understanding model (about 0.85B parameters, Qwen3.5 vision-language architecture) that converts documents into Markdown, with optional labelled bounding-box grounding, image descriptions and chart-to-table extraction.
Use LightOnOCR-3-0.8B with a simple API call. OpenAI-compatible endpoint, EU data residency guaranteed.
curl https://api.eurouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EUROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "lightonocr-3-0.8b",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'You need AI that won’t create compliance headaches. Your data stays in the EU, GDPR is enforced by default, and every request is routed for the best balance of cost, latency, and uptime, reducing risk while improving performance.