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OCR & document parsingFree

Docling

Open-source toolkit that converts PDFs, Office files and images into structured markdown or JSON for AI pipelines. v2.139.0 released Oct 14.

Official site: github.com ↗

Is it actually free? Free

Free under the MIT license. You install it with pip and run it locally or in your own pipeline.

Pricing

Free and open source (MIT license).

Best for

Developers feeding documents into RAG or agent pipelines.

Not great for

People who want a point-and-click app.

Alternatives

OCR & document parsingFree

Indra OCR

Datalab's OCR model that turns scans and PDFs into markdown on a plain CPU, first published Oct 10–13.

Free? Free to download and run on your own computer. Code Apache-2.0. Weights: modified OpenRAIL-M, free for personal use, research, and organizations at or…

OCR & document parsingFree

LightOnOCR-3

LightOn's Apache-2.0 OCR models (0.8B, 1B and 4B) that transcribe pages and can also return layout boxes and chart tables.

Free? Free under Apache 2.0. You run it on your own hardware (LightOn's speed figures are for an H100 GPU); a free demo runs on Hugging Face.

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