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GROBID vs Marker: catalog facts
GROBID	Marker
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free The code is free under Apache 2.0; model weights have a separate licence, and Datalab…
Linux, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Command line
Built specifically for scholarly papers Extracts metadata and references as structured data	Handles tables, equations and code blocks Accepts many input formats besides PDF
Needs to be run as a server, with some setup Aimed at academic documents rather than general PDFs	Model weights are under a separate licence from the code Needs a Python environment and benefits from a GPU
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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