liteparse

name	liteparse
description	Use this skill when the user asks to parse, perform multi-format document conversion or spatially extract text from an unstructured file (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images, etc.) locally without cloud dependencies.
compatibility	Requires Node 18+ and `@llamaindex/liteparse` installed globally via npm (`npm i -g @llamaindex/liteparse`)
license	MIT
metadata	{"author":"LlamaIndex","version":"0.1.0"}

LiteParse Skill

Parse unstructured documents (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, images, and more) locally with LiteParse: fast, lightweight, no cloud dependencies or LLM required.

Step 0 — Install LiteParse (if needed)

If liteparse is not yet installed, install it globally:

npm i -g @llamaindex/liteparse

Verify installation:

lit --version

For Office document support (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX), LibreOffice is required:

# macOS
brew install --cask libreoffice

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt-get install libreoffice

For image parsing, ImageMagick is required:

# macOS
brew install imagemagick

# Ubuntu/Debian
apt-get install imagemagick

Step 1 — Produce the CLI Command or Script

Parse a Single File

# Basic text extraction
lit parse document.pdf

# JSON output saved to a file
lit parse document.pdf --format json -o output.json

# Specific page range
lit parse document.pdf --target-pages "1-5,10,15-20"

# Disable OCR (faster, text-only PDFs)
lit parse document.pdf --no-ocr

# Higher DPI for better quality
lit parse document.pdf --dpi 300

Batch Parse a Directory

lit batch-parse ./input-directory ./output-directory

# Only process PDFs, recursively
lit batch-parse ./input ./output --extension .pdf --recursive

Generate Page Screenshots

# All pages
lit screenshot document.pdf -o ./screenshots

# Specific pages
lit screenshot document.pdf --pages "1,3,5" -o ./screenshots

Key Options Reference

OCR Options

Option	Description
(default)	Tesseract.js — zero setup, built-in
--ocr-language fra	Set OCR language (ISO code)
--ocr-server-url <url>	Use external HTTP OCR server
--no-ocr	Disable OCR entirely

Output Options

Option	Description
--format json	Structured JSON with bounding boxes
--format text	Plain text (default)
-o <path>	Save output to file

Performance / Quality Options

Option	Description
--dpi <n>	Rendering DPI (default: 150; use 300 for high quality)
--max-pages <n>	Limit pages parsed
--target-pages <ranges>	Parse specific pages (e.g. "1-5,10")
--no-precise-bbox	Disable precise bounding boxes (faster)
--preserve-small-text	Keep very small text that would otherwise be dropped

Supported Input Formats

Category	Formats
PDF	.pdf
Word	.doc, .docx, .docm, .odt, .rtf
PowerPoint	.ppt, .pptx, .pptm, .odp
Spreadsheets	.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .ods, .csv, .tsv
Images	.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, .webp, .svg

Office documents require LibreOffice; images require ImageMagick. LiteParse auto-converts these formats to PDF before parsing.