Qwen3-VL 8B on laptop competes with top models on messy docs, fails on date formats

A benchmark shows Qwen3-VL 8B (Q4, on a laptop) got 59% of 137 messy documents fully right, beating GPT-5.6 Terra's 57% but trailing Claude Opus 5.5 (89%) and Sonnet 5 (85%). It excelled on US tax forms (21/32 vs 7/32) but struggled with Indian date formats and long contracts.

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