This article details a method for converting PDFs to Markdown using a local LLM (Gemma 3 via Ollama), focusing on privacy and efficiency. It involves rendering PDF pages as images and then using the LLM for content extraction, even from scanned PDFs.
MarkItDown is a utility for converting various files to Markdown, including PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Images, Audio, HTML, text-based formats, and ZIP files.
How to read and convert PDFs to Markdown for better RAG results with LLMs.
Docling is a tool that parses documents and exports them to desired formats like Markdown and JSON. It supports various document formats and provides advanced PDF understanding, metadata extraction, and integration with LlamaIndex and LangChain for RAG / QA applications.
Docling is a tool that parses documents and exports them to desired formats like Markdown and JSON. It supports various document formats including PDF, DOCX, PPTX, Images, HTML, AsciiDoc, and Markdown.
