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Dev tools · May 11, 2025

One-liner CLI for batched PDF-to-Markdown at $1 per ~6k pages

Extracting clean text from PDFs is still a mess. Tools like dockling and marker do a decent job—but they’re slow and resource-hungry. pymupdf4llm is fast, but it’s AGPL-licensed, which means you'd need to open-source everything that talks to it—even over the network. Gemini Batch Prediction gives you blazing throughput and unbeatable pricing—$1 for 6,000 pages. The catch? It’s a pain to use. That is, until now. We wrapped it up in a few friendly CLI commands—simple enough for your grandparents to enjoy.

One-liner CLI for batched PDF-to-Markdown at $1 per ~6k pages launched on May 11, 2025 with 8 votes, #2,977 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

Serving files for hungry LLMs. Contribute to altaidevorg/llm-food development by creating an account on GitHub.

llm-food is a Python package that provides a FastAPI-based microservice (the server ) for converting various input document formats into clean Markdown text. This output is optimized for downstream Large Language Model (LLM) pipelines, such as those used for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) orfrom github.com

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