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olmOCR vs MinerU: catalog facts
olmOCR	MinerU
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence; you supply the GPU.	Free Free to download and run; the repository does not declare a standard license.
Linux, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Handles tables, equations and handwriting Keeps reading order in complex layouts	Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more
Requires a capable GPU Command-line pipeline with no desktop interface	Setup and model downloads suit technical users Higher-quality parsing tiers need more compute
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
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 September 23, 2026

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