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LightOn gives you an API to search, parse, and ingest documents at scale. Build knowledge-retrieval pipelines without managing vector databases or OCR models.

What you can do

Ingest

Upload files to a workspace. LightOn handles parsing, chunking, embedding, and indexing automatically — files become searchable in seconds.

Search

Hybrid semantic + lexical search with reranking across your document corpus. Returns ranked chunks with scores, source metadata, and optional page images.

Parse

Convert PDFs, Office files, and images to structured Markdown. Synchronous, nothing stored — useful for feeding documents into your own pipeline.

Extract

Pull typed fields out of documents using a JSON Schema you provide. Sync mode for small files, async mode for large jobs.

Get started

Quickstart

Get a search result in under 5 minutes.

Authentication

Set up your API key.

API Reference

Full endpoint documentation.