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MinerU vs olmOCR: catalog facts
MinerU	olmOCR
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; you supply the GPU.
Self-hosted, Command line	Linux, Command line
Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more	Handles tables, equations and handwriting Keeps reading order in complex layouts
Setup and model downloads suit technical users Higher-quality parsing tiers need more compute	Requires a capable GPU Command-line pipeline with no desktop interface
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
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 September 24, 2026

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