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When to Self-Host LightOnOCR-3 vs. Calling a Hosted PDF-to-Markdown API

When an AI agent or RAG pipeline needs to turn a PDF into clean Markdown, teams hit a practical fork: run an open-weight OCR model on their own GPU, or pay per page for a hosted conversion API. LightOnAI's October 8, 2026 release of LightOnOCR-3 ( 0.8B , 1B , and 4B Apache-2.0 checkpoints) makes th…

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  1. 2026-11-12 14:11 · DEV Community — AI
    When to Self-Host LightOnOCR-3 vs. Calling a Hosted PDF-to-Markdown API

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