Book-to-skill, a GitHub project with 24k stars and 2.6k forks, converts PDFs and EPUBs into Claude Code skills, distilling technical books into a SKILL.md file and per-chapter files that agents load o…
IBM Research introduced DocLang, a constrained XML sub-language designed to make document structure more interpretable for large language models, complementing its open-source Docling parser. Docling,…
Firecrawl, founded by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, launched anydoc on August 4th, an open-source Rust engine that converts PDFs, Word documents, slide decks, and 10 other…
A developer building RAG over scientific papers found that PDF parsers tuned for business documents often fail silently on equations and tables, producing plausible but incorrect outputs. After testin…
A developer highlights Docling, an open-source document parser from IBM, that converts PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, images, and scanned documents into clean Markdown or JSON while preserving tables, reading orde…
A developer built DeepDoc, a single static Rust binary that parses docx, pptx, xlsx, and other born-digital formats into clean Markdown without any runtime dependencies, cloud uploads, or non-determin…
Datalab released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline, which scores 76.0% on the olmOCR-bench benchmark from Allen AI and sustains 2.9 pages per second on a single …
Datalab released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline, scoring 76.0% on the third-party olmOCR-bench benchmark from Allen AI while sustaining 2.9 pages per second o…
IBM released Docling, an open-source document processing tool that parses diverse formats including PDF, DOCX, and images, with integrations for generative AI ecosystems like LangChain and LlamaIndex.…
A developer built myRAG, a fully self-hosted RAG stack combining FastAPI, React, Qdrant, PostgreSQL, and Neo4j. The system uses hybrid search with dense and sparse embeddings, cross-encoder reranking,…
Datalab released Lift, a 9B vision model for schema-first document extraction that directly outputs structured JSON from PDFs and images, claiming 90.2% field accuracy. The tool competes with NuExtrac…
A developer argues that most RAG applications fail because they still parse PDFs as plain text instead of preserving document layout. The recommended approach is to use tools that output structured Ma…
AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT cannot see images, only read alt text, making text-level image optimization more critical than byte-level optimization for agent-driven traffic. With ~50% of images h…
IBM engineer Bob developed a custom skill for the "IBM Bob" coding agent to automate the design of HashiCorp Vault secrets engines, based on his own reverse-engineering experience and a tutorial he wr…