Megaparse [LW24]
Open-source Document Parser to Markdown with OCR/LLMs
Megaparse [LW24] launched on December 3, 2024 with 289 votes, #117 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Megaparse is an open-source document parser that converts PDFs, DOCX, and PPTX files into Markdown format optimized for large language models. It uses OCR and LLMs to handle complex documents. Developers can access the parser through a Python package, REST API, or message queue, making it suitable for applications that need to feed documents into AI systems or extract structured content at scale.
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From the sources
Megaparse is a file parser optimized for LLM Ingestion. It can parse PDFs, DOCX, PPTX in a format that is ideal for LLMs. All of that accessible from a python package, an API, or a queue.
Megaparse is a tool that parses documents and extracts it to structured data.
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