Web data API that turns pages into Markdown or JSON for AI models, with search, crawl and natural-language page interaction.
Document parsers: AI tools compared (November 2026)
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Document parsing API from LlamaIndex that prepares more than 90 formats for AI with layout awareness, with free credits and an EU region.
AWS OCR and document analysis service that extracts text, handwriting, tables, forms and expense data from scans.
Paris-based OCR and extraction API that turns invoices, receipts, IDs, resumes and custom document types into structured JSON.
URL-to-Markdown and search API from Jina AI in Berlin, now part of Elastic, with small models for HTML conversion and image captions.
Open-source tool from New York-based Datalab that converts PDF, Office and images into Markdown, JSON and HTML, optionally with an LLM.
Open-source document parser from OpenDataLab at Shanghai AI Laboratory: turns PDFs, scans and Office files into Markdown or JSON for AI.
Open-source Python crawler that turns websites into Markdown for RAG and AI agents, with an optional hosted API and MCP access.
Open-source document parser started at IBM Research Zurich: converts PDF, Office, images and audio locally into Markdown or JSON for AI.
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