Parsr

Why we included this project

Parsr turns PDFs, scanned images, Word docs, and EML files into structured data formats like JSON, Markdown, CSV, and TXT. It goes beyond plain OCR by cleaning the document and rebuilding its layout: it recovers word, line, and paragraph hierarchy and flags headings, tables, lists, page numbers, and headers or footers, so downstream pipelines receive consistent input instead of raw OCR noise. That makes it handy for document automation, archival, and data-entry work, and the Docker image with a bundled GUI lets you try it quickly. The catch: the project is no longer maintained and security patches aren't being applied, so treat it as a reference implementation or a learning base rather than a long-term dependency.