convert pdf to markdown

https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker

Marker converts PDF to markdown quickly and accurately.

• Supports a wide range of documents (optimized for books and scientific papers)
• Supports all languages
• Removes headers/footers/other artifacts
• Formats tables and code blocks
• Extracts and saves images along with the markdown
• Converts most equations to latex
• Works on GPU, CPU, or MPS

How it works

Marker is a pipeline of deep learning models:

• Extract text, OCR if necessary (heuristics, surya, tesseract)
• Detect page layout and find reading order (surya)
• Clean and format each block (heuristics, texify
• Combine blocks and postprocess complete text (heuristics, pdf_postprocessor)

It only uses models where necessary, which improves speed and accuracy.

neat application of machine learning. I've not used it yet, but have had situations in the past where it would have come in handy.