datalab-to/marker
Convert PDF to markdown + JSON quickly with high accuracy
40.4k stars · 2.9k forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 84% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 18
- Human commits, 365 days
- 38
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 43%
- Last commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 20, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Jul 20, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 2 hours
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 3% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 6 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 38 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 27
Top committers
- VikParuchuri: 84% of commits
- tarun-menta: 8% of commits
- u-ashish: 8% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 4, 2023 to Dec 30, 2023: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 283 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jan 1, 2024 to Jan 3, 2024: about 166 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 25, 2024 to Jan 27, 2024: about 357 more stars than usual, peak 207 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 29, 2024 to Mar 7, 2024: about 293 more stars than usual, peak 121 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 2, 2024 to Jun 6, 2024: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 519 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 26, 2025 to Jan 30, 2025: about 424 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 12, 2025 to Aug 21, 2025: about 729 more stars than usual, peak 283 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 28, 2026 to Jul 3, 2026: about 453 more stars than usual, peak 201 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
- 7 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
- marker-pdf (PYPI): latest 2.0.0, published Jul 20, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: datalab-to/marker, deps.dev: PyPI marker-pdf
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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