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Surya vs MinerU: catalog facts
Surya	MinerU
Free The code is free under Apache 2.0; model weights have a separate licence and Datalab sells…	Free Free to download and run; the repository does not declare a standard license.
Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Layout analysis and reading order alongside OCR Table recognition with rows and columns	Parses tables, formulas and scanned pages with OCR Accepts PDF, Office, OpenDocument, EPUB, HTML and more
Model weights are under a separate licence from the code Runs best with a capable GPU	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 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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