liteparse
Why Model-Free Parsing Is Quietly Winning RAG
LiteParse 2.1 is LlamaIndex's open-source, model-free PDF-to-Markdown parser that runs at ~3ms per page on a laptop CPU — no GPU, no cloud API, no token fees. This post explains why dropping the LLM from your ingestion layer wins on cost, privacy, determinism and testability in RAG pipelines, and