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GROBID vs Nougat: catalog facts
GROBID	Nougat
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free; code under MIT, model weights under a separate licence.
Linux, Self-hosted	Linux, Command line
Built specifically for scholarly papers Extracts metadata and references as structured data	Handles mathematical formulas Runs locally
Needs to be run as a server, with some setup Aimed at academic documents rather than general PDFs	Model weights are under a non-commercial style licence Little recent development
Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
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 October 2, 2026

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