# lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B From Plugin #### NOTE This is a [remotely-sourced model](../remote.md#model-zoo-remote) from the [LightOnOCR-2](../../plugins/plugins_ecosystem/lightonocr_2.html) plugin, maintained by the community. It is not part of FiftyOne core and may have special installation requirements. Please review the plugin documentation and license before use. LightOnOCR is a 2.1B-parameter vision-language model optimized for optical character recognition. It uses a chat-based interface to extract text from images with high accuracy across various document types, handwritten text, and scene text.. **Details** - Model name: `lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B` - Model source: [https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B](https://huggingface.co/lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B) - Model author: LightOn AI - Model license: Apache-2.0 - Exposes embeddings? no - Tags: `ocr, text-extraction, VLM, document-understanding` **Requirements** - Packages: `huggingface-hub, transformers, torch, torchvision, pillow` - CPU support - yes - GPU support - yes **Example usage** ```python import fiftyone as fo import fiftyone.zoo as foz foz.register_zoo_model_source("https://github.com/harpreetsahota204/LightOnOCR-2") dataset = foz.load_zoo_dataset( "coco-2017", split="validation", dataset_name=fo.get_default_dataset_name(), max_samples=50, shuffle=True, ) model = foz.load_zoo_model("lightonai/LightOnOCR-2-1B") dataset.apply_model(model, label_field="predictions") session = fo.launch_app(dataset) ```