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Start with MinerU: it parses PDFs into Markdown and suits paragraphs, tables and formulas. To export Word or LaTeX, also compare Doc2X.
Updated 2026-10-29
Parses PDFs and scanned pages, extracting structured text, tables and formulas
Supports PDF parsing, OCR and Markdown output, and recognizes formulas and tables.
Parses PDFs and exports Word, Markdown, LaTeX and other formats.
Parses documents locally into Markdown, suited to batch processing pipelines.
Open-source OCR and document parsing, for users who set up their own processing environment.
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