MinerU: efficient open source intelligent PDF document parsing tools, support for Markdown and JSON conversion

MinerU is an open source intelligent document parsing tool designed to efficiently convert complex PDF documents (e.g. containing images, formulas, tables, etc.) into structured formats such as Markdown, JSON, and so on. This for the need to deal with large amounts of document content researchers, students and professionals , greatly improving the efficiency of work .

Key Features:

• semantic consistency: Automatically removes headers, footers, footnotes and page numbers to ensure consistent text.
• human readability: Output content is arranged in natural reading order, adapting to single-column, multi-column and complex layouts.
• Structural reservations: Preserve the structural elements of the original document, such as headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.
• Diversified Content Extraction: Support for extracting images, tables, formulas, etc. and converting them to appropriate formats such as LaTeX (for formulas) and HTML (for tables).
• OCR Functions: Automatically detect scanned or garbled PDFs, enable optical character recognition (OCR), and support 84 languages.
• Multiple output formats: Support for multimodal and NLP-friendly Markdown, read-ordered JSON, and other rich intermediate formats.

Usage:

1. Installing MinerU: You can get the information from the MinerU's GitHub repository Get an installation guide that supports Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms.
2. Prepare the document: Place the PDF document to be parsed in the specified directory.
3. operational analysis: Run MinerU from the command line or the graphical interface, select the documents to be processed, and set the output format and other parameters.
4. Getting results: After parsing is complete, you will have structured files in the output directory that can be used for further editing or data processing.

In addition, MinerU offers a graphical interface client that supports major operating systems such as Windows, macOS and Linux. There is no need to program or log in, just download it and use it. Users just need to drag and drop or enter the URL of the document to be converted, and then the document can be intelligently extracted in the graphical interface. The client supports content extraction of multiple document types and provides a variety of recognition modes, models and language configuration options to meet the needs of different scenarios. citeturn0search4

With MinerU, you can easily convert complex PDF documents into a structured format for subsequent editing, analysis and processing.