MinerU
opendatalab/MinerU
An open-source tool that converts complex documents like PDFs and Office files into AI-readable Markdown, helping you easily extract content and structure.
Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
AI Summary
What This Project Does
Simply put, it's a document translator that converts complex files like PDFs, Word, and PPTs into Markdown or JSON formats that AI can directly understand.
What Problems It Solves
Traditional PDF layouts with tables, formulas, and images are hard for AI to grasp. It organizes this messy layout into clean text structures, eliminating the hassle of manual copy-pasting, perfect for AI knowledge bases.
Who It's For
1. Developers building AI applications
2. Researchers needing to batch process papers or reports
3. SMEs wanting to digitize historical docs for AI integration
Typical Use Cases
- ā¢Building a chatbot that answers questions based on PDF content
- ā¢Extracting key clause data from hundreds of contracts in bulk
- ā¢Converting scanned old papers into searchable text
Key Strengths & Highlights
Compared to ordinary tools, it understands document layout logic better, with more accurate table and formula recognition, plus it's completely open-source and free.
Getting Started Requirements
Requires basic Python knowledge, needs deployment on your local machine or server, no account registration or API keys needed, install once and use long-term.
Purpose
Good for feeding large document volumes into AI programs, like building knowledge bases. If just reading a few files, online converters might be simpler.
Category
Tech Stack
Project Info
- Primary Language
- Python
- Default Branch
- master
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Created
- Feb 29, 2024
- Last Commit
- yesterday
- Last Push
- yesterday
- Indexed
- Apr 19, 2026