# IBM Granite 4.0 3B Vision: The Compact VLM Built for Document Extraction

> IBM Research's 4B-parameter VLM turns charts, tables, and invoices into structured data with a single tag-driven API call. 85.5% KVP accuracy zero-shot, Apache 2.0, and vLLM-native.

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Edition: Article 05 · April 2026
Tags: Agents, Automation, Vision AI
Reading time: 11 min read

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