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