LlamaIndex launched OpenDocRouter, an API that parses documents into markdown using 10 open-source and frontier models, each run through a versioned recipe of prompts, processing, and settings. The se…
LightOn released LightOnOCR 3, an Apache 2.0 OCR model family in 0.8B, 1B and 4B sizes that returns a bounding box for every extracted block so chart values and table cells can be traced back to their…
LM-Kit released LM-Kit Document Parsing, a document parsing engine for LM-Kit.NET and LM-Kit One that scores 86.0 on ParseBench, which the company says is the best result of any self-hostable method. …
Cohere released Parse 5 (parse-v5.0) on August 27, 2026, a 2.3-billion-parameter multimodal foundation model that converts complex PDFs into Markdown with bounding box coordinates for visual grounding…
Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, a 2.3-billion-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides, and images into structured Markdown at $1.50 per 1,000 pages, targeting enterprise-scale …
LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu ran ParseBench on Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash and found it scores 14 points worse on chart reading than the model it replaced, dropping from 45.0 to 31.0, with overall document …
LlamaIndex released LiteParse v2.1, an open-source PDF-to-markdown pipeline that achieved top scores on three benchmarks against model-free approaches. The tool uses a heuristic rule-based approach wi…
A new benchmark from the Agent Voyager Project found that a simple "double-check your work" instruction added to an AI agent's prompt boosted its accuracy from 82% to 95% on a PDF-to-webpage conversio…