opendatalab/MinerU vs Unstructured-IO/unstructured

Compare opendatalab/MinerU and Unstructured-IO/unstructured 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

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Unstructured-IO/unstructured

This project streamlines the ingestion and pre-processing of unstructured data for large language models. It provides modular functions and an MCP server to convert images and text documents into structured outputs.

License: Apache-2.0
Deployment: Python environment
Use cases: Documents & Office · Knowledge Q&A
Updated: 2026-07-17T14:34:17Z

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