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Understood as: summarize, long, legal, contracts, summarization, summary, document, ocr, pdf · task: summarization

Best models

Ranked by fit to the task, adoption and reported results. Hosted models are paid APIs; the rest can be downloaded.

1
pszemraj/long-t5-tglobal-base-sci-simplify
matches long, summarization · built for summarization · 147,418 downloads · apache-2.0 license
2
knkarthick/MEETING_SUMMARY
matches summarization, summary · built for summarization · 43,338 downloads · apache-2.0 license
3
facebook/bart-large-cnn
matches summarization · built for summarization · 1,376,790 downloads · mit license
4
sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6
matches summarization · built for summarization · 296,878 downloads · apache-2.0 license
5
philschmid/bart-large-cnn-samsum
matches summarization · built for summarization · 79,770 downloads · mit license
6
google/pegasus-xsum
matches summarization · built for summarization · 72,429 downloads

Research to read

1
The Last Mile of Coding Agents for Long-Document Tasks: An Empirical Study on Clinical Trial Protocol Digitization
matches long, document
2
Heading Hierarchy Reconstruction for Complex and Long Documents with Level-Wise Multimodal Memory
matches long, document
3
VL-DocIR: A Benchmark for Vision-Based Long Document Information Retrieval
matches long, document
4
PIGEONS: Incremental Long-Video Captioning with Persistent Identity Gallery and Evolving Overarching Narrative Summary
matches long, summary
5
Structure-Preserving Document-Level Data Augmentation via Discourse Parsing
matches document
6
SLS-Bench: A Benchmark for Incident Log Summarization with Synthetic Observability Data
matches summarization

Open-source tools and code

1
PaddleOCR
matches document, ocr, pdf · 91,121 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
2
paperless-ngx
matches document, ocr, pdf · 46,683 GitHub stars · GPL-3.0 license
3
opendataloader-pdf
matches document, ocr, pdf · 29,705 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
4
unstructured
matches document, ocr, pdf · 15,567 GitHub stars · Apache-2.0 license
5
unstract
matches document, ocr, pdf · 7,283 GitHub stars · AGPL-3.0 license
6
kordoc
matches document, ocr, pdf · 2,452 GitHub stars · MIT license

Datasets

1
gutoportelaa/dom-pi-pdfs-2025
matches legal, document, ocr, pdf · 91,253 downloads · cc-by-4.0 license
2
AmazonScience/document-haystack
matches long, document, pdf · 97,262 downloads
3
mercor/apex-agents
matches long, legal, document · 102,136 downloads · cc-by-4.0 license
4
llamaindex/ParseBench
matches document, ocr, pdf · 27,018 downloads · apache-2.0 license
5
AyoubChLin/Company-document-dataset-v2
matches document, ocr, pdf · 12,107 downloads · apache-2.0 license
6
zai-org/LongBench
matches long, summarization · 55,255 downloads

Rankings are computed from public metadata and are a starting point, not a guarantee. Always test on your own data and check each license. Ask the community if you are unsure.