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Marker vs PaddleOCR: catalog facts
Marker	PaddleOCR
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 licence.
Self-hosted, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Handles tables, equations and code blocks Accepts many input formats besides PDF	Parses layout, tables and formulas, not just lines of text Outputs JSON and Markdown ready for downstream processing
Model weights are under a separate licence from the code Needs a Python environment and benefits from a GPU	Built on the PaddlePaddle framework, which is a large dependency Much of the documentation and community is in Chinese
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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