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olmOCR vs GROBID: catalog facts
olmOCR	GROBID
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence; you supply the GPU.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Linux, Command line	Linux, Self-hosted
Handles tables, equations and handwriting Keeps reading order in complex layouts	Built specifically for scholarly papers Extracts metadata and references as structured data
Requires a capable GPU Command-line pipeline with no desktop interface	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: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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