> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.extend.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Extraction Light

> Changelog for the Extraction Light base processor in Extend.

Our low latency, low cost extraction processor. Faster and cheaper than Performance while still maintaining a high degree of accuracy, but struggles with more complex extraction tasks.

## Versions

| Version | Date                                                   | Changelog                                                                                                                                                |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `3.0.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2025-04-01</div> | - New foundation model with improved accuracy and performance.<br />- A number of small improvements to the pre-processing pipeline for light processor. |
| `2.4.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2024-10-10</div> | Add support for an optimized `enum` field type. Significant improvements to handling documents with messy handwriting and forms.                         |
| `2.3.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2024-08-16</div> | Updates to our document pre-processing to better handle more complex document/table layouts.                                                             |
| `2.2.1` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2024-07-18</div> | Patch to fix rare cases of missing page references in extraction results.                                                                                |
| `2.2.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2024-07-14</div> | Updates to our document pre-processing to better handle checkboxes.                                                                                      |
| `2.1.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2024-07-01</div> | Updates to our document pre-processing to better handle more complex document/table layouts.                                                             |
| `2.0.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2024-04-01</div> | Rolls out a new foundation model for the light extraction processor. Significantly more accurate, with little to no latency increase.                    |
| `1.0.0` | <div style={{ whiteSpace: "nowrap" }}>2023-09-01</div> | Initial (and now legacy) light tier extraction model.                                                                                                    |