"That's tagging a 50k cell table almost 40x faster. Not bad for an afternoon's work, eh?"

Commits that made it happen:

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/71451319ebb9463d2...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/b50c34e14f012993f...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/b6b212971e285a4a8...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/0626cd422a275ac40...

A quick article on how iText began looking at GraalVM’s Native Image technology and our continuing development in this area. All because of a random meeting in SF.

what does marker add on top of docling?

Docling is a great project, happy to see more people building in the space.

Marker output will be higher quality than docling output across most doc types, especially with the --use_llm flag. A few specific things we do differently:

  - We have hybrid mode with gemini that merges tables across pages, improves quality on forms, etc.
  - we run an ordering model, so ordering is better for docs where the PDF orde ris bad
  - OCR is a lot better, we train our own model, surya - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
  - References and links
  - Better equation conversion (soon including inline)

pdfHTML from iText does it (you can create PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-2, and PDF/A documents from it), without using any external engine. You can even add your custom processing.