Benchmarks

Evaluated on 200 PDF documents with hand-annotated Markdown ground truth from the DP-Bench corpus.

• Benchmark date: 2026-07-06 (vision arm re-run 2026-07-07 on nutrient 1.3.1)
• Corpus: 200 documents with ground-truth Markdown annotations (42 with tables, 107 with headings)
• Hardware: Apple M3 Ultra (no discrete GPU)
• Metrics: NID (reading order), TEDS (table structure), MHS (heading hierarchy)
• All scores normalized to [0, 1] — higher is better
• All competitor libraries pinned to their latest versions as of the benchmark date
• Nutrient --vision is the licensed machine-vision ICR tier of the same binary (--provider auto); its numbers below are from the 1.3.1 build, which is ~3× faster than 1.3.0 (1.045 → 0.354 s/page) with accuracy identical to four decimals

Accuracy Metrics

Solution	Version	Extraction accuracy	Reading order (NID)	Table structure (TEDS)	Heading level (MHS)
Nutrient --vision	1.3.1	0.933	0.959	0.938	0.868
docling	2.110.0	0.892	0.905	0.933	0.829
Nutrient	1.3.0	0.889	0.926	0.739	0.824
pymupdf4llm	1.28.0	0.859	0.902	0.731	0.777
opendataloader	2.4.7	0.831	0.902	0.483	0.739
markitdown	0.1.6	0.589	0.844	0.273	0.000
pypdf	6.14.2	0.576	0.870	0.000	0.000
liteparse	2.4.1	0.570	0.857	0.000	0.000

opendataloader-hybrid was not re-run in this pass (requires a separate docling backend service); its 2026-04-23 numbers were 0.87 / 0.91 / 0.68 / 0.81.

Speed

Solution	Seconds per page
Nutrient	0.004
liteparse	0.004
opendataloader	0.015
pypdf	0.015
markitdown	0.069
pymupdf4llm	0.218
Nutrient --vision	0.354
docling	0.549

Nutrient and liteparse convert batch-parallel; the other engines run sequentially in-process. Timing is wall-clock over the whole corpus on the hardware above. The --vision timing is per-document invocation; a single batch invocation over all 200 documents times the same (0.356 s/page), so process startup and model initialization are negligible once the models are cached.

Relative Speed Callouts (default engine)

• Nutrient is 134x faster than docling
• Nutrient is 53x faster than pymupdf4llm
• Nutrient is 17x faster than markitdown
• Nutrient is 4x faster than pypdf
• Nutrient is 4x faster than opendataloader

Reproduction

Run on the private PSPDFKit-labs/opendataloader-bench harness (branch benchmark-update-with-new-parsers): uv run src/pdf_parser.py --engine <name> then uv run src/evaluator.py --engine <name>. The vision arm uses the nutrient-vision-cli engine with the 1.3.1 CDN binary (requires a vision license key).