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Datalab

High-accuracy document parsing — PDFs and images to markdown, JSON, and HTML.

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Data OpsVision
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
APICLI
Models
Self-contained (on-device)
Verified
Jun 20, 2026

Datalab turns PDFs, images, and office documents into clean markdown, JSON, and HTML with layout, table, math, and code preservation. It is the commercial, hosted layer over the open-source Marker converter and Surya OCR toolkit, offered as a pay-as-you-go API with a free monthly allowance, while the underlying models stay free to self-host for research and small startups.

Pros & cons

  • Open-source core (Marker + Surya)
  • Self-host free for research/small startups
  • Preserves tables, math, and code
  • 90+ language OCR
  • Hosted API metered per page
  • Self-hosting needs GPU for throughput
  • Best results may need an LLM pass

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