LiteParse v2 Review: LlamaIndex's Rust PDF Parser for Agents (opens in new tab)

Originally published on andrew.ooo — visit the original for any updates, code snippets that aged out, or follow-up posts. TL;DR LiteParse v2 is LlamaIndex's June 2026 rewrite of their open-source document parser — the same spatial-layout extraction core that powers their LlamaParse cloud product, but now written entirely in Rust and shipped as native packages for Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and the browser via WASM. It's positioned as the answer to a real, specific problem: agents need to rea...