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Summary
LlamaIndex rewrote the document parser in Rust, reducing the parsing time of a 457-page PDF to 0.7 seconds. It is open-source, free, and supports multiple runtime environments.
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457-page PDF parsing in just 0.7 seconds — LlamaIndex rewrites its document parser in Rust, open source and free
LlamaIndex has rewritten its document parser in Rust. A 100MB, 457-page PDF can be parsed in just 0.777 seconds. It runs across four environments: Python, Node, Rust, and the browser — open source and free.
Why rewrite in Rust?
LiteParse v1 was written in Node.js, and its parsing speed is limited by
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