r/LocalLLaMA August 3, 2026 · Communities

I compared MinerU, Granite-Docling, and PaddleOCR-VL on 12 PDF-parsing capabilities using 6 document types

I tested them by sending the 6 documents, each meant to represent a different document type, through my own webapp and comparing every output against the source. All ran on the same L4 GPU. The documents: Financial statements with merged multi-level headers (A typical annual report) Two pages of a two-column arXiv pape