Category · 1 jobs · 7 tools · updated Oct 27, 2026

AI tools for work

Unstructured has the strongest public evidence in work at 66/100, across 7 tools tracked for 1 different job. 5 can be used free and 3 are open source.

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Extract data from documents

Pull structured data out of PDFs and scans

Top 7 tools in work

evidence / 100

Unstructured Open source

Ingest library and hosted pipeline that normalises 25+ file types into chunks for retrieval.

+ The connector list is the real product - S3, SharePoint, Confluence and Drive land as clean chunks.
− The open library's best parsing paths push you toward the paid API.

Apache 2.0 core; the hosted platform and connectors are paidopen sourcecliapilinuxmac

66new

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Docling Open source

Turns PDFs, Office files and scans into structured markdown or JSON, layout and tables intact.

+ Reads a table as a table, and does it on your own machine with nothing sent anywhere.
− Heavy scanned documents want a GPU; CPU-only runs are slow on long PDFs.

MIT; runs locally, no API keyopen sourcecliapilinuxmacwindows

64new

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Surya Open source

OCR, layout and reading-order models covering 90+ languages, weights included.

+ Beats the old OCR engines on messy scans and non-Latin scripts, locally.
− The licence is not plain open source above a revenue line - read it before shipping.

Weights are free for research and small companies; a commercial licence applies above a revenue thresholdopen sourcecliapilinuxmac

42new

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LlamaParse Free tier

Parsing service aimed at the documents that break parsers: nested tables, forms, figures.

+ Holds up on financial statements and forms where plain text extraction turns to soup.
− Per-page pricing and a cloud round trip; large archives add up fast.

Free pages each day, then per-page creditsapiweb

18new

evidence / 100

Mathpix Free tier

Screenshots and PDFs of maths and chemistry into LaTeX, markdown or Word.

+ Still the most accurate thing there is at equations, which general OCR gets wrong.
− Narrow by design - a plain business PDF is better served elsewhere.

Free snips each month; paid by volume or API callwebapimacwindowslinuxios

11new

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Nanonets Paid

Extracts fields from invoices, receipts and forms, then posts them into an accounting system.

+ Ships the boring half: approval steps, validation rules and exports to QuickBooks or SAP.
− Priced for finance teams, not for a side project.

Per-page tiers; a free trial allowancewebapi

2new

evidence / 100

Reducto Paid

Developer API that splits dense documents into structured blocks with coordinates and citations.

+ Every block comes back with a page position, so an answer can cite exactly where it came from.
− API only and priced per page - no interface for someone doing this once.

Per-page, with a trial allowanceapi

1new

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