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PyMuPDF4LLM

PyMuPDF extension that extracts PDF content as Markdown or structured chunks for LLM and RAG pipelines.

  • Artifex
  • Local only
  • Free, open source

Official site · Source code

Where it ranks

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    Documents & OCR
    Parsers & APIs · Local · no rated model available here yet

Ranked by its own benchmark result where it has one; otherwise by the best model it offers.

Facts

Vendor
Artifex
Approach
Parsers & APIs
Where it runs
Runs only on your own hardware
Interface
API
Skill level
Advanced: command line, node graphs or self-hosting
Price
Free, open source
Pricing notes
Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Source code
Open source (AGPL-3.0 (commercial licence available))
GitHub stars
2.3k (19 Oct 2026)
Last verified
19 Oct 2026

Price from github.com, 19 Oct 2026.

Models it gives you

No models recorded yet.

Its own benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
ParseBench (parsing products and libraries)53.5%PyMuPDF4LLM
Overall (mean of tables, charts, content faithfulness, semantic formatting, visual grounding) from leaderboard.csv in the ParseBench repo (last leaderboard commit 2026-10-09).
9 Oct 2026github.com

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