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Turn any PDF into clean Markdown.

Drop a file. Get structured text back. One click, no signup, no BS.

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Why Hardparse?

Tables become real Markdown tables.
Formulas become LaTeX.
Handwriting becomes readable text.
Runs on my own hardware — no OpenAI, no Azure, no third-party APIs.
Free while I'm launching. Then $19/mo flat. Cancel any time.

Compared to the alternatives

Service	Price	Quality
Hardparse	$19/mo flat	🟢 GPU VLM
Google Document AI	$0.10–1.50/page	🟢 strong
Azure Doc Intelligence	$0.50–10/1K pages	🟢 strong
Tesseract	free	🔴 breaks on tables

Who's using it

A handful of early testers have run their first documents this week — indie operators and small teams trying out GPU-grade OCR. No public logos yet. You're early.

How it works

Drop a PDF or image
A vision model reads it on our server
Copy the Markdown and go back to work

FAQ

Is it really free?

Yes. 5 pages/month free, no credit card. After that it's $19/mo flat for unlimited. I'll raise that once I have real traction.

Is there an API?

Yes. POST /v1/parse with a bearer token. Email me for a token until I wire up the self-serve dashboard.

Can I self-host?

Not yet. If you need on-prem for compliance reasons, email me — I'll figure something out.

Why does this exist?

I needed proper OCR to feed my own RAG pipeline — something that preserved tables, formulas, and layout instead of flattening everything into sloppy text. Existing vendors either lost structure or got expensive fast. So I built this. Now you can use it too.