liteparse

LiteParse Skill

Parse unstructured documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images, and more) locally with LiteParse: fast, lightweight, no cloud dependencies or LLM required.

Step 0 - Use via npx, or install LiteParse

NOTE: Rather than installing liteparse globally, you can instead run it directly with npx, substituting lit <args> with npx -y @llamaindex/liteparse <args> in the commands below.

npx -y @llamaindex/liteparse

Otherwise if installing globally, use pnpm install -g @llamaindex/liteparse and then run lit <args>.

Step 1 - Produce the CLI Command or Script

Parse a Single File

# Basic text extraction
lit parse document.pdf

# JSON output saved to a file
lit parse document.pdf --format json -o output.json

# Specific page range
lit parse document.pdf --target-pages "1-5,10,15-20"

# Disable OCR (faster, text-only PDFs)
lit parse document.pdf --no-ocr

# Use an external HTTP OCR server for higher accuracy
lit parse document.pdf --ocr-server-url http://localhost:8828/ocr

# Higher DPI for better quality
lit parse document.pdf --dpi 300

Batch Parse a Directory

lit batch-parse ./input-directory ./output-directory

# Only process PDFs, recursively
lit batch-parse ./input ./output --extension .pdf --recursive

Generate Page Screenshots

Screenshots are useful for LLM agents that need to see visual layout.

# All pages
lit screenshot document.pdf -o ./screenshots

# Specific pages
lit screenshot document.pdf --pages "1,3,5" -o ./screenshots

# High-DPI PNG
lit screenshot document.pdf --dpi 300 --format png -o ./screenshots

# Page range
lit screenshot document.pdf --pages "1-10" -o ./screenshots

Step 3 - Key Options Reference

OCR Options