{
 "kind": "usecase",
 "id": "usecase:parse-documents-for-llm",
 "url": "https://headlesson.com/usecases/parse-documents-for-llm",
 "name": "Parse documents into structured content",
 "apps": [
  {
   "id": "app:poppler",
   "name": "Poppler utilities",
   "url": "https://headlesson.com/apps/poppler",
   "one_liner": "PDF library whose command-line utilities (pdftotext, pdfinfo and others) extract text and metadata from PDF files.",
   "test": {
    "record_id": "test:wgxi8q",
    "date": "2026-10-11",
    "version": "26.04.0",
    "status": "passed",
    "url": "https://headlesson.com/tests/wgxi8q"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "app:tesseract",
   "name": "Tesseract OCR",
   "url": "https://headlesson.com/apps/tesseract",
   "one_liner": "Open-source OCR engine with a command-line program that turns images of text into plain text, TSV, hOCR or searchable PDF.",
   "test": {
    "record_id": "test:djrmwhe",
    "date": "2026-10-11",
    "version": "5.5.1",
    "status": "passed",
    "url": "https://headlesson.com/tests/djrmwhe"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "app:docling",
   "name": "Docling",
   "url": "https://headlesson.com/apps/docling",
   "one_liner": "Local document converter with structured JSON and Markdown output.",
   "test": {
    "record_id": "test:zcpidpi",
    "date": "2026-10-11",
    "version": "2.137.0",
    "status": "passed",
    "url": "https://headlesson.com/tests/zcpidpi"
   }
  },
  {
   "id": "app:marker",
   "name": "Marker",
   "url": "https://headlesson.com/apps/marker",
   "one_liner": "Local document converter with Markdown, JSON and optional hybrid LLM processing.",
   "test": {
    "record_id": "test:lq2atao",
    "date": "2026-10-11",
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "status": "partial",
    "url": "https://headlesson.com/tests/lq2atao"
   }
  }
 ],
 "note": "Only published records are listed. Other tools for this use exist in the catalog.",
 "page_updated": "2026-10-13"
}