MarkItDown
Python tool from Microsoft that converts Office documents, PDFs and other files to Markdown.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 188k
- Deployment
- Library
Open-source alternatives to Azure Document Intelligence
Azure Document Intelligence in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.
PaddleOCR
OCR toolkit that reads text and structure from images and PDF files, with support for many languages.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 90.5k
- Deployment
- Library
Docling
Converts PDFs, Office files and images into structured text and tables that AI models can use.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 68.3k
- Deployment
- Library
Marker
Converts PDF files to Markdown and JSON, including tables and equations.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 40.2k
- Deployment
- Library
olmOCR
Toolkit that turns PDF pages into clean, readable text using a language model.
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 19.7k
- Deployment
- Library
Unstructured
Library that turns documents in many formats into structured data for language models and search.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 15.5k
- Deployment
- Library
DeepSeek-OCR
Model from DeepSeek that reads text and layout in document images and compresses them for language models.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
Florence-2-large
Vision model from Microsoft for captioning, object detection and OCR through text prompts.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
PaddleOCR-VL
Compact model from PaddleOCR that parses documents with text, tables and formulas in many languages. Based on baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-Paddle.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- PaddleOCR
dots.ocr
Model that parses document layout and reads text, tables and formulas in one step, in several languages.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- dots_ocr
granite-docling-258M
Small model from IBM that turns document pages into structured text, for use with Docling.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
olmOCR-7B-0225-preview
Model from the Allen Institute for AI that turns PDF pages into clean text. Based on Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
GOT-OCR-2.0-hf
OCR model from StepFun that reads text, tables, formulas and sheet music from images.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- Deployment
- transformers
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