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Is Qwen3-VL-2B the only viable VLM for JSON extraction on a "potato"?

After spending countless hours testing on 3 "potato" laptops (Intel i3, 8GB RAM, Win11, integrated GPU), that's my conclusion. For reliably extracting data from images to JSON on low-end hardware, nothing else even comes close. Yet, it’s completely missing from major benchmarks like Artificial Analysis or the Open LLM Leaderboard (while the 4B version is listed). In my (non-scientific) testing, Qwen3-VL-2B Q4_K_M GGUF easily outper

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