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| Field | MarkItDown | Miller | DuckDB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Universal | Universal, MCP, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor | Universal |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | MIT | BSD-2-Clause | MIT |
| Stars | 191797 | 10049 | 42451 |
| Last activity | — | October 21, 2026 | September 28, 2026 |
| Install complexity | سهل / Easy | EASY | سهل — حزمة Python أو ملف CLI تنفيذي واحد |
| Category | Workflow, Research | Workflow, Data | Database |
| Best use | Best for a developer or analyst extracting text from several document formats before search or supplying selected passages to an AI agent. It provides a repeatable CLI command and Python library, while requiring review against the original. It is not intended for layout-perfect document publishing. | Ideal for developers, data analysts, and operators who need to clean a CSV export, inspect JSON Lines, or summarize a large file from the terminal without starting a Python project. Use it for quick, repeatable file processing; concurrent transactions and advanced visual analysis still call for a database or complementary analytics tool. | Best for an analyst, developer, or small team that needs to inspect and join large data files and rerun analysis locally. It adds reviewable SQL without database-server setup. It is not a multi-user transactional database for many small concurrent writes from separate processes. |