AI developers, researchers, and professionals frequently hit a frustrating wall when analyzing large documents with LLMs: the hidden, compounding cost […]
Category: OCR
Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown
Datalab has released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline. Marker converts PDF, image, PPTX, […]
Datalab’s Marker 2 vs MinerU, Docling and LiteParse: 76.0 on olmOCR-bench at 5× MinerU’s Throughput
Datalab has released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline. Marker converts PDF, image, PPTX, […]
How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. We […]
Datalab Lift vs the Field: How a 9B Schema-First Extractor Compares with NuExtract3, LlamaExtract, Marker, and Docling
Datalab’s Lift is a focused document extraction tool with a specific promise: give it a PDF or image plus a […]
Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use that data […]
Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end accounts-payable extraction pipeline with lift-pdf, using synthetic invoice PDFs as controlled test documents […]
Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation
In this tutorial, we build a complete PDF-to-structured-data extraction workflow around Lift, with a focus on controlled evaluation rather than […]
OCRmyPDF Tutorial: Convert Scanned Documents into Searchable PDF/A Files with Sidecar Text Extraction and Batch Processing
In this tutorial, we build an advanced, self-contained OCRmyPDF workflow. We start by installing the required system and Python dependencies, […]
Baidu Releases Unlimited OCR, a 3B Model That Keeps the KV Cache Flat for Long-Document Parsing
Most end-to-end OCR models slow down as output grows. Each generated token adds to the KV cache. Memory rises and […]