Jerry Liu@jerryjliu0
Introducing LiteParse - the best model-free document parsing tool for AI agents 💫
✅ It’s completely open-source and free.
✅ No GPU required, will process ~500 pages in 2 seconds on commodity hardware
✅ More accurate than PyPDF, PyMuPDF, Markdown. Also way more readable - see below for how we parse tables!!
✅ Supports 50+ file formats, from PDFs to Office docs to images
✅ Is designed to plug and play with Claude Code, OpenClaw, and any other AI agent with a one-line skills install. Supports native screenshotting capabilities.
We spent years building up LlamaParse by orchestrating state-of-the-art VLMs over the most complex documents. Along the way we realized that you could get quite far on most docs through fast and cheap text parsing.
Take a look at the video below. For really complex tables within PDFs, we output them in a spatial grid that’s both AI and human-interpretable. Any other free/light parser light PyPDF will destroy the representation of this table and output a sequential list.
This is not a replacement for a VLM-based OCR tool (it requires 0 GPUs and doesn’t use models), but it is shocking how good it is to parse most documents.
Huge shoutout to @LoganMarkewich and @itsclelia for all the work here.
Come check it out: llamaindex.ai/blog/liteparse…
Repo: github.com/run-llama/lite…
