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

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