Kreuzberg v3.0 – Modern Python Document Extraction
I'm excited to announce Kreuzberg v3.0, which was released yesterday. Kreuzberg is an MIT licensed Python library that extracts text from a wide range of documents (PDFs, images, office files etc.) without depending on external APIs dependencies. Its different from other libraries and commercial offerings in this space by being designed to be (1) lightweight, (2) CPU orientated, (3) simple to user and (4) have async support as a first class citizen. The v3.0 release completely reworks the architecture for extensibility. Kreuzberg now now supports: - Multiple OCR backends (Tesseract,…
Kreuzberg v3.0 – Modern Python Document Extraction launched on March 24, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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I'm excited to announce Kreuzberg v3.0, which was released yesterday. Kreuzberg is an MIT licensed Python library that extracts text from a wide range of documents (PDFs, images, office files etc.) without depending on external APIs dependencies. Its different from other libraries and commercial offerings in this…
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