#OCR

MinerU Hands-on: Open-Source PDF and Multi-Format Document Parsing on macOS/Windows/Linux

When dealing with complex layouts, scanned documents, or formulas, traditional PDF-to-text tools often fall short. The open-source framework MinerU combines layout analysis with vision-language models (VLM) to convert PDFs, images, and Office files into accurate Markdown, tables, and LaTeX formulas in one step. This article tests both the online Web version and local CLI/API deployment workflow.