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GROBID vs MinerU: catalog facts
GROBID	MinerU
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free to download and run; the repository does not declare a standard license.
Linux, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Command line
Built specifically for scholarly papers Extracts metadata and references as structured data	Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more
Needs to be run as a server, with some setup Aimed at academic documents rather than general PDFs	Setup and model downloads suit technical users Higher-quality parsing tiers need more compute
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	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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