Qwen3-VL 8B on a laptop vs Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5 / GPT-5.6 on 137 messy documents: beat GPT-5.6 on tax forms, lost badly on Indian date formats[R]

I benchmarked Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct (Q4_K_M, Ollama, M5 24GB, ~30s/doc) against Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on: - receipts: CORD (Indonesia) and SROIE (Malaysia), 30 each - 20 scanned 1980s-90s invoices , answer keys human-verified - 32 real IRS forms, 4 damage levels (generated this