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Marker vs MinerU: catalog facts
Marker	MinerU
Free The code is free under Apache 2.0; model weights have a separate licence, and Datalab…	Free Free to download and run; the repository does not declare a standard license.
Self-hosted, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Handles tables, equations and code blocks Accepts many input formats besides PDF	Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more
Model weights are under a separate licence from the code Needs a Python environment and benefits from a GPU	Setup and model downloads suit technical users Higher-quality parsing tiers need more compute
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
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 September 23, 2026

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