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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational9 October 2026

From Pixels to Structure: Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Document OCR and Structured JSON Extraction

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arXiv:2610.11818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While massive, closed-source Vision-Language Models (VLMs) set strong benchmarks for document understanding, their dependence on commercial APIs limits adoption in institutional archives due to data autonomy concerns, recurring costs, and the environmental footprint of hyperscale computing. This is especially acute in heritage digitization, where documents include historical handwriting, domain-specific terminology (e.g., jewelry, prehistory, architecture), and non-standard layouts requiring high-dimensional structured extraction. We present a
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