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liteparse

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Local document and PDF parsing that returns spatial text with bounding boxes. Use for extracting text from PDFs, DOCX, Office files, and images; running OCR on scans; producing layout-preserved JSON for RAG; batch-ingesting folders of papers; or rendering pages to PNG for multimodal agents. Distinguishing capabilities are spatial text boxes, Markdown, page raster output, and local parsing with optional custom HTTP OCR.

When to use

• **Fast local parsing** of PDFs or converted Office/image files without cloud dependencies
• **Spatial text** with bounding boxes for layout-aware RAG, citation grounding, or figure/table region logic
• **OCR** on scanned PDFs or images (bundled Tesseract, or a user-run HTTP OCR server)
• **Page screenshots** (PNG) for multimodal agents that must see charts, figures, or handwriting
• **Batch ingestion** of literature folders, supplementary PDFs, or protocol libraries
• **Page subsets** or **password-protected** PDFs

When not to use

• | Task | Use instead | |------|-------------| | Markdown for LLM ingestion (EPUB, audio, YouTube, HTML) | `markitdown` skill | | Merge/split PDFs, forms, watermarks, rotation | A PDF manipulation library such as `pypdf` | | Dense tables, h…

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