K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
liteparse
Local document and PDF parsing that returns spatial text with bounding boxes. Use for extracting text from PDFs, DOCX, Office files, and images; running OCR on scans; producing layout-preserved JSON for RAG; batch-ingesting folders of papers; or rendering pages to PNG for multimodal agents. Distinguishing capabilities are spatial text boxes, Markdown, page raster output, and local parsing with optional custom HTTP OCR.
Before you install
- Last update
- Files in folder
- 7
- Scripts
- Contains scripts. Review them before running.
- SKILL.md size
- 12 KB (about 3,096 tokens of context each time it loads)
- License
- MIT
- Source on GitHub
- K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
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Install
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills@liteparseRuns in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.
Install for your agent
npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills@liteparse --agent claude-code -y- Project install writes to
.claude/skills/liteparse- Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/liteparse
Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /liteparse.
What it does
LiteParse — Local Document Parsing Overview LiteParse is an open-source document parser (Rust core, Python/Node bindings) for local, layout-aware text extraction. It produces layout text, structured JSON, or heuristic Markdown. Spatial text items may span several words; Python emitwordboxes=True adds word boxes when needed. Verified release: Python liteparse 2.15.0 (September 29, 2026); CLI and synthetic local PDF/image fixtures tested on Python 3.13. Node/Rust examples below are source-checked and illustrative. Images convert through bundled Rust libraries, not ImageMagick. No cloud account…
Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.
Categories
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