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Nougat vs GROBID: catalog facts
Nougat	GROBID
Free Free; code under MIT, model weights under a separate licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Linux, Command line	Linux, Self-hosted
Handles mathematical formulas Runs locally	Built specifically for scholarly papers Extracts metadata and references as structured data
Model weights are under a non-commercial style licence Little recent development	Needs to be run as a server, with some setup Aimed at academic documents rather than general PDFs
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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