liteparse

liteparse is a skill for Claude Code from dralkh/seerai. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,398 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of liteparse, MIT.

A local document and PDF parser that extracts text while keeping page positions, such as bounding boxes, and can process scans with OCR. OCR means recognizing text inside images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extracting text from PDFs, Word and other office files, and images; processing scanned documents; creating structured data for search; ingesting folders of papers; and making page screenshots.
Why use it?
It provides layout-aware results without sending documents to cloud AI services, which helps when position, privacy, or batch processing matters.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Extracting text from PDFs, Word and other office files, and images; processing scanned documents; creating structured data for search; ingesting folders of papers; and making page screenshots.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dralkh/seerai/liteparse
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add dralkh/seerai --skill liteparse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dralkh/seerai

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,398 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00098 $0.02398
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01199
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00240

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8990aa277558, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

liteparse scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/batch_parse_dir.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sL https://example.com/report.pdf | lit parse -
Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to liteparse — 23 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/liteparse/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

LiteParse — Local Document Parsing

Overview

LiteParse is a fast, open-source document parser (Rust core, Python/Node bindings) focused on local, layout-aware text extraction with bounding boxes. It does not produce Markdown and does not call cloud LLMs. Outputs are plain text (layout-preserved) or structured JSON with per-page text_items (position, font metadata, optional confidence).

Version note: Examples target liteparse 2.0.0 (PyPI, May 2026). The upstream V1 branch is legacy; this skill documents V2 / main only.

For parser selection vs MarkItDown, the pdf skill, or LlamaParse, see references/choosing_a_parser.md.

When to Use This Skill

Use LiteParse when you need:

  • Fast local parsing of PDFs or converted Office/image files without cloud dependencies
  • Spatial text with bounding boxes for layout-aware RAG, citation grounding, or figure/table region logic
  • OCR on scanned PDFs or images (bundled Tesseract, or a user-run HTTP OCR server)
  • Page screenshots (PNG) for multimodal agents that must see charts, figures, or handwriting
  • Batch ingestion of literature folders, supplementary PDFs, or protocol libraries
  • Page subsets or password-protected PDFs

When Not to Use

Task Use instead
Markdown for LLM ingestion (EPUB, audio, YouTube, HTML) markitdown skill
Merge/split PDFs, forms, watermarks, rotation pdf skill
Dense tables, handwriting, production cloud pipelines LlamaParse (cloud; sign up separately)

Installation

uv pip install "liteparse==2.0.0"

This installs the Python bindings and the lit CLI. Verify:

lit --help
python -c "import liteparse; print(liteparse.__version__)"

Optional system tools (for non-PDF inputs):

  • LibreOffice — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, CSV/TSV
  • ImageMagick — PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, SVG, etc.

Install commands are in references/ocr_and_formats.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 294 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 8990aa277558

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liteparse is a skill published in the GitHub repository dralkh/seerai (76 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,398 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 91% identical to liteparse, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.