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LiteParse CLI Reference (lit)

The lit command ships with liteparse (Python), @llamaindex/liteparse (npm), and cargo install liteparse (Rust). Behavior is the same across installs.

lit --help
lit parse --help
lit batch-parse --help
lit screenshot --help

lit parse

Parse a single file or stdin.

lit parse [OPTIONS] <file>
Option Description
-o, --output <file> Write output to file (default: stdout)
--format <format> json or text (default: text)
--no-ocr Disable OCR
--ocr-language <lang> Tesseract language (default: eng)
--ocr-server-url <url> HTTP OCR server base URL
--tessdata-path <path> Tessdata directory
--max-pages <n> Max pages (default: 1000)
--target-pages <pages> e.g. 1-5,10,15-20
--dpi <dpi> Rendering DPI (default: 150)
--preserve-small-text Keep very small text
--password <password> Encrypted document password
--num-workers <n> Concurrent OCR workers
-q, --quiet Suppress progress
-h, --help Help

Examples

lit parse document.pdf
lit parse document.pdf --format json -o output.json
lit parse document.pdf --target-pages "1-5,10" --no-ocr
lit parse scan.pdf --ocr-language fra --dpi 200
lit parse protected.pdf --password secret
curl -sL https://example.com/paper.pdf | lit parse - -o paper.txt

lit batch-parse

Parse every supported file in a directory.

lit batch-parse [OPTIONS] <input-dir> <output-dir>
Option Description
--format <format> json or text (default: text)
--no-ocr Disable OCR
--ocr-language <lang> Tesseract language (default: eng)
--ocr-server-url <url> HTTP OCR server
--tessdata-path <path> Tessdata directory
--max-pages <n> Max pages per file (default: 1000)
--dpi <dpi> Rendering DPI (default: 150)
--recursive Recurse into subdirectories
--extension <ext> Only files with extension (e.g. .pdf)
--password <password> Password for encrypted documents
--num-workers <n> Concurrent OCR workers
-q, --quiet Suppress progress
-h, --help Help

Examples

lit batch-parse ./papers ./parsed
lit batch-parse ./papers ./parsed --format json --recursive
lit batch-parse ./pdfs ./out --extension .pdf --no-ocr

Output files mirror input basenames with .txt or .json extension.

lit screenshot

Render pages to PNG files.

lit screenshot [OPTIONS] <file>
Option Description
-o, --output-dir <dir> Output directory (default: ./screenshots)
--target-pages <pages> Pages to render (e.g. 1,3,5 or 1-5)
--dpi <dpi> Rendering DPI (default: 150)
--password <password> Encrypted document password
-q, --quiet Suppress progress
-h, --help Help

Examples

lit screenshot document.pdf -o ./screenshots
lit screenshot document.pdf --target-pages "1,3,5" --dpi 300

Environment variables

Variable Description
TESSDATA_PREFIX Directory containing Tesseract .traineddata files (offline/air-gapped)