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MinerU vs PaddleOCR: catalog facts
MinerU	PaddleOCR
Free Free to download and run; the repository does not declare a standard license.	Free Free and open source under the Apache licence.
Self-hosted, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more	Parses layout, tables and formulas, not just lines of text Outputs JSON and Markdown ready for downstream processing
Setup and model downloads suit technical users Higher-quality parsing tiers need more compute	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
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
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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