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Use IBM Granite 4.0 3B Vision for document extraction on modest hardware.
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At 85.5% exact-match accuracy (zero-shot) on OCR, chart analysis, and table parsing, this 3B model ranks 3rd among 2-4B VLMs. Trained on 32 H100 GPUs for ~200 hours. For document processing pipelines that don't need a frontier model, this is the best accuracy-per-compute option available.
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