Turn any document into clean markdown, built for Laravel

How it works

$markdown = Parse::file('contract.pdf')->markdown();

1. Our composer package sets up a webhook and creates a signed URL for the document you are sending and a signed URL to receive the markdown. Your app never has to touch the actual files (that's a good thing).
2. Our backend then has a look at the document, routes it to the right parser, executes the parsing (which can take a few seconds for small files to minutes for large files), saves the generated markdown to the signed URL we gave it, and pings your Laravel app back. You receive an event and you can do whatever you want with that.
3. You're set with a clean markdown version of the document.

Have a look at the docs.

Design philosophy

Parse for artisans is designed to make it both ridiculously easy and actually affordable to turn any document into AI-friendly markdown.

• Easy. Our composer package handles signing temporary URLs, creating a webhook, all the annoying bits and pieces so you don't have to set that up.
• Fast. Our backend routes documents to the right parser, and scales up to handle both 10,000s of documents, or very large documents.
• Quality. We run constant evals both manually and automatically - I've spent more time comparing markdown outputs than I'd like to admit.
• Affordable. A generous free tier plus affordable pricing that scales up without killing your bank account or surprise bills.

Why I built this

I previously built a legal startup where we had to parse lots (10,000s) of documents. The documents lawyers are given often include the strangest formats - emails scanned into PDFs, old document formats, you name it. We started by using LlamaParse, which is the good but not crazy expensive option. But it got expensive quickly.

After we shut down the startup, and researched the options, I decided to build Parse for artisans.