Marker

A developer tested three open-source PDF-to-markdown converters — Microsoft's MarkItDown 0.1.8, IBM Research's Docling 2.131.0, and Datalab's Marker 2.0.0 — on three synthetic PDFs (a two-page report …

Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlo…

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…