run-llama/liteparse

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

Data & analyticsRust#document-ocr#document-processing#ocr#ocr-recognition#pdf

3.7 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 25, 2026, 13:57 UTC.

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About the project

A local Rust document parser that extracts text with bounding boxes from PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and images, with OCR via Tesseract or HTTP servers. Runs without cloud or LLMs, with bindings for Python, Node.js, WASM and a CLI.

Useful for

Extract text and bounding boxes from PDFs for downstream processing in Python or Node.js
Run scanned pages through Tesseract OCR and get structured Markdown for RAG
Detect document complexity before a full parse to decide whether OCR is needed

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Why it’s trending

10 stars so far today, about 23 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 7 per day, so that's 3.2× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 3.6× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #5, +44 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 12,625
Today: 10 · ≈ 23 by evening
Forks: 863
Issues and pull requests: 466
Watchers: 40
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: node-v2.14.7 · September 22, 2026
Created: February 9, 2026
Last push: September 22, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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September 25, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #5, +44 stars

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