Part of Documents and Data Extraction

Which tools turn office files and PDFs into Markdown for an agent?

3 examples

Agents

Ollama
PaddleOCR
MarkItDown

Repositories

ollama/ollama
PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
microsoft/markitdown

Use Cases

Reported by source

Extract invoice fields locally with a vision model on Ollama

Stephen Sebastian replaced a paid cloud OCR API with Gemma 4 E4B on Ollama to pull date, amount and description from contractor invoice photos on his laptop.

Ollama

dev.toollama/ollama

Reported by source

Parse scanned PDFs with tables into Markdown and JSON

Run PaddleOCR's PP-StructureV3 pipeline on scans to recover layout, tables, formulas and reading order as Markdown or JSON.

PaddleOCR

github.comPaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Reported by source

Convert PDFs and Office files to Markdown for an LLM

Run MarkItDown on PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files to get structure-preserving Markdown an LLM can read cheaply.

MarkItDown

github.commicrosoft/markitdown

Which tools read text and tables from scanned documents?
Which agents build or edit spreadsheets with working formulas?

Agents

Repositories

Use Cases

Extract invoice fields locally with a vision model on Ollama

Parse scanned PDFs with tables into Markdown and JSON

Convert PDFs and Office files to Markdown for an LLM

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