Instructions to use richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8 with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8

SGLang

How to use richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8 with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8
```

LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8

FP8 dynamically quantized version of lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox for faster inference.

Quantization Details

Method: FP8 dynamic quantization using llmcompressor
Scheme: FP8_DYNAMIC (weights and activations)
Ignored layers: lm_head

Performance

Benchmarked on NVIDIA B200 GPU with vLLM 0.14:

Precision	Throughput	Quality
BF16	1,570 tok/s	Baseline
FP8	2,023 tok/s	✓ Match

1.29x speedup with identical output quality.

Usage with vLLM

vllm serve richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8 \
    --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 1}'

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

llm = LLM(model="richarddavison/LightOnOCR-2-1B-bbox-FP8", limit_mm_per_prompt={"image": 1})
sampling = SamplingParams(temperature=0.2, max_tokens=2048)

conversations = [[{
    "role": "user",
    "content": [{"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://example.com/document.png"}}]
}]]

results = llm.chat(conversations, sampling)
print(results[0].outputs[0].text)

License

Apache 2.0 (same as base model)

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Safetensors

Model size

1B params

Tensor type

BF16

F8_E4M3

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