marker VS retext

Compare marker vs retext and see what are their differences.

marker

Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy (by VikParuchuri)

retext

ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText (by retext-project)
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marker retext
8 6
7,947 1,808
- 1.8%
8.0 7.1
15 days ago 14 days ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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marker

Posts with mentions or reviews of marker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-20.
  • LlamaCloud and LlamaParse
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024
    You may want to try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). I've only benchmarked against tesseract, but it outperforms it by a lot (benchmarks in repo). Happy to discuss.

    You could also try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker for general PDF parsing (I'm also the author) - it seems like you're more focused on tables.

  • Show HN: Texify – OCR math images to LaTeX and Markdown
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
    Hi HN - I made texify to convert equations to markdown/LaTeX for my project marker [1] then realized it could be generally useful.

    Texify converts equations and surrounding text to Markdown, with embedded LaTeX (MathJax compatible).

    You can either use a GUI to select equations (inline or block) from PDFs and images to convert, or use the CLI to batch convert images. It works on CPU, GPU, or MPS (Mac).

    The closest open source comparisons are pix2tex and nougat - marker is more accurate than both of them for this task. However, nougat is more for entire pages, and pix2tex is more for block equations (not inline equations and text).

    I trained texify for 2 days on 4x A6000 GPUs - I was pleasantly surprised how far I could get with limited GPU resources by reframing the problem to use small parameter counts/images.

    Texify is licensed for commercial use, with the weights under CC-BY-SA 4.0. Fine them here - https://huggingface.co/vikp/texify .

    See the texify repo for more details, benchmarks, how to install, etc.

    [1] https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

  • Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2023
    https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

    Both are tools to convert pdfs into Latex or Markup with latex formulas. Maybe that helps

  • FLaNK Stack Weekly 11 Dec 2023
    31 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2023
  • Marker: Convert PDF to Markdown quickly with high accuracy
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 4 Dec 2023
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 2 Dec 2023
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
  • FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023
    24 projects | dev.to | 4 Dec 2023

retext

Posts with mentions or reviews of retext. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing marker and retext you can also consider the following projects:

voyager - 🛰️ An approximate nearest-neighbor search library for Python and Java with a focus on ease of use, simplicity, and deployability.

Pine - A modern, native macOS markdown editor

llmsherpa - Developer APIs to Accelerate LLM Projects

MarkdownEditing - Powerful Markdown package for Sublime Text with better syntax understanding and good color schemes.

PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

Marker - 🖊 A gtk3 markdown editor

node-gtk - GTK+ bindings for NodeJS (via GObject introspection)

QOwnNotes - QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.

FLiPStackWeekly - FLaNK AI Weekly covering Apache NiFi, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Ozone, Apache Pulsar, and more...

django-markdownx - Comprehensive Markdown plugin built for Django

langchain4j - Java version of LangChain

marker - The terminal command palette