LiteParse — Local Document Parsing

Overview

LiteParse is an open-source document parser (Rust core, Python/Node bindings) for local, layout-aware text extraction. It produces layout text, structured JSON, or heuristic Markdown. Spatial text items may span several words; Python emit_word_boxes=True adds word boxes when needed.

Verified release: Python liteparse 2.15.0 (September 29, 2026); CLI and synthetic local PDF/image fixtures tested on Python 3.13. Node/Rust examples below are source-checked and illustrative. Images convert through bundled Rust libraries, not ImageMagick. No cloud account is needed, but missing Tesseract language data can download from GitHub and an explicitly configured HTTP OCR service receives document images.

For parser selection vs MarkItDown, PDF manipulation libraries, or LlamaParse, see references/choosing_a_parser.md.

When to Use This Skill

Use LiteParse when you need: