Convert PDFs to Markdown with Marker

In the video titled ‘Marker: This Open-Source Tool will make your PDFs LLM Ready,’ the channel Prompt Engineering introduces Marker, an open-source tool designed to convert complex PDF files into structured Markdown, making them easier to process for large language models (LLMs). The video discusses the challenges of working with PDFs for LLM applications, such as complex structures, various encodings, and formatting issues. Marker simplifies this process by accurately converting PDFs into Markdown, preserving the document structure, including headers, footers, images, tables, and equations. The video compares Marker with NuGet, highlighting its superior performance in terms of speed and accuracy. It also provides a detailed tutorial on installing Marker, converting single or multiple PDF files, and reviewing example results. Marker supports a wide variety of documents, and while it has some limitations, it performs well on most PDF files. The video emphasizes the importance of good data for LLM applications and showcases how Marker can streamline data preprocessing.