opendatalab/MinerU vs PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
Compare opendatalab/MinerU and PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR using the current verified snapshot: positioning, license, deployment, use cases, limitations, and original sources.
opendatalab/MinerU
MinerU converts PDF, image, DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX files into Markdown and JSON for downstream retrieval and processing. It offers CLI, API, and WebUI interfaces with multiple parsing backends that support CPU execution, GPU acceleration, or remote inference.
- License
- License pending
- Deployment
- Refer to project documentation
- Use cases
- Documents & Office · Knowledge Q&A
- Updated
- 2026-07-17T05:28:44Z
PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
PaddleOCR converts PDF documents and images into structured, LLM-ready data formats including JSON and Markdown. It includes a lightweight 0.9B vision-language model alongside structure-aware conversion capabilities for downstream retrieval and processing tasks.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Deployment
- Refer to project documentation
- Use cases
- Documents & Office · Knowledge Q&A
- Updated
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