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Re:MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office d... by markhneedham on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:01PM (#42411295)
Quite curious how this compares to docling - https://github.com/DS4SD/docling

docling uses an LLM IIRC, so that's already a difference in approach

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Re:MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office d... by phren0logy on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:11PM (#42411388)
In my use, docling has not involved an LLM. There are a few choices for OCR, but I don't think a vision model is one of them.

It's certainly touted as a solution to digest documents into plain text for LLM use, but (unless I just haven't run into that part of it) it does not employe an LLM for its functions.

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Re:MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office d... by ekianjo on Saturday December 14, 2024 @04:51AM (#42415870)
docling does not use LLMs...
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