LiteParse Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy LiteParse hosting and run a self-hosted document parsing API that turns PDFs, Office documents and images into text, markdown or structured page data, with built-in OCR. xCloud starts the pinned server image behind an nginx gateway that requires a generated API key on every request, and serves it over HTTPS on your domain. There is no web interface, no stored documents and no external service.

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What is LiteParse?

LiteParse is an open-source document parser focused on fast, light parsing, released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Upstream describes spatial text parsing with bounding boxes, built-in Tesseract OCR with plug-in HTTP OCR servers, complexity detection, page screenshots, and Markdown, JSON or text output that suits LLM and RAG pipelines, all running locally without cloud dependencies. For harder layouts upstream points to LlamaParse, its cloud parser. A self-hosted LiteParse is the local alternative to sending every document to a hosted parser.

On xCloud the template runs the official ghcr.io/run-llama/liteparse-server image as one container with no database, cache or volume. Upstream publishes only a moving main tag, so the image is pinned by digest and the page names no release. An nginx gateway requires a bearer API key, and uploads are processed in memory only.

From Sign-Up to a Live Parsing API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted parser normally means a container, a gateway to keep it from being open to the internet, an API key, a domain and a certificate before the first document. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick LiteParse from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official LiteParse server image, pinned by immutable digest and kept private, behind an nginx gateway that is the only published service. xCloud generates the API key and publishes the gateway over HTTPS on your domain. There is no data volume: documents are processed in memory.
Step 03
Send Your First Document
Copy the API key from the installation credentials, then POST a file: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <key>" -F [email protected] "https://your-domain/parse?markdown=true". There is no web page — LiteParse is an API.

Everything LiteParse Does, On Your Own Server

LiteParse runs in full here: a parsing API on your own domain, protected by a key only you hold.

PDFs, Office Files And Images
Upstream reads PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and image files; QA verified PDF, DOCX and a scanned PDF. Office conversion uses LibreOffice inside the image.
Text, Markdown Or JSON Pages
One multipart POST to /parse returns JSON pages; add ?text=true or ?markdown=true for plain text or markdown that is ready for LLM and RAG pipelines.
Built-In OCR
Image-only scans are read with the bundled Tesseract OCR, verified on a scanned PDF. OCR, DPI and page limits are set per request in the optional config field.
Screenshots And OCR-Need Estimates
/screenshots returns page images as newline-delimited JSON, and /is-complex estimates per page whether a document needs advanced OCR.
Key-Protected Gateway
Every request needs the generated API key as a Bearer token; requests without it get a 401. The gateway also rate limits clients, caps uploads at 50 MB and times out slow calls.
Stateless By Design
Uploads are processed in memory and nothing is written to disk, so a Restart simply brings the same API back.

Everything You Need To Run Your Document Parsing API 24/7

Managed hosting for LiteParse, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

LiteParse deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
API key generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With LiteParse

Turn PDFs into markdown for LLMs
Convert documents to structured markdown or JSON ready for retrieval pipelines.
Read scanned pages
Run OCR on images and scanned PDFs without sending them to a hosted service.
Route hard documents
Check whether a document is complex before deciding to parse it locally or send it elsewhere.
Keep documents on your server
Process files in memory on infrastructure you control, behind an API key.

LiteParse vs Alternatives

LlamaParse: Upstream recommends its cloud parser LlamaParse for dense tables, charts and scanned layouts. LiteParse is the local, light option you run yourself.
Docling Serve: Docling Serve has its own xCloud page and is another self-hosted document conversion API. LiteParse focuses on fast, light parsing, with OCR and complexity detection.
Unstructured: Unstructured has its own xCloud page. LiteParse is a single-container parsing API with an API-key gateway and no storage.
Apache Tika: Tika has its own xCloud page for extracting text and metadata. LiteParse returns markdown or JSON pages, page screenshots and per-page OCR-need estimates.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for LiteParse hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for large uploads or LiteParse beside other pipeline services.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. LiteParse itself is licensed by its maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Run Your Own Document Parser?

LiteParse on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Can you self-host LiteParse with Docker?

Yes. For LiteParse Docker hosting, the template runs the official ghcr.io/run-llama/liteparse-server image, pinned by digest because upstream publishes only a moving main tag. It is one container with no database or volume, behind an nginx gateway that is the only published service, served over HTTPS on your domain.

Is LiteParse free and open source?

The LiteParse parser is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, and its REST server repository is MIT, so there is no licence fee. The cost with xCloud is the Cloud VPS and the deployment. Upstream's cloud parser, LlamaParse, is a separate paid service that this template does not use.

How much RAM does LiteParse need?

The manifest asks for 512 MB of RAM, one CPU core and 4 GB of disk, with no data volume. The server buffers each whole upload in memory, so large files need proportionally more, and the gateway caps requests at 50 MB. The 6 GB plan sold here is far above that.

How do I authenticate to LiteParse?

LiteParse has no accounts of its own, so the gateway requires the generated API_KEY from your credentials on every request, sent as Authorization: Bearer followed by the key. Anything else gets a 401. Give the key only to callers you trust, because it is the only protection.

How do I send a document to LiteParse?

Send a multipart POST with the document in a file field to /parse on your HTTPS domain, adding the bearer key. Add markdown=true or text=true for those formats. Other paths include /screenshots for page images and /is-complex for a per-page estimate. Parser options go in an optional config field.

Does LiteParse store my documents?

No. Uploaded files are kept in memory only while a request runs, and nothing is written to a volume, so there is nothing to back up and restarts start clean. Be aware a caller can set an OCR server URL in the config field, and the parser will call that address from the server.

How do I upgrade LiteParse?

The server image is pinned by digest, so a catalog change reaches new installs only and there is no release number to track. Upgrading means adopting a newer template version with a new digest. Nothing is persisted, so no data needs migrating, but retest your parsing requests afterwards.

Can LiteParse read scanned documents?

Yes, it includes OCR. Upstream bundles Tesseract and can use other OCR servers over HTTP. The /is-complex path estimates whether a document needs advanced OCR. For dense tables, charts or handwriting, upstream recommends its cloud parser, so test your hardest documents first.

Can I run LiteParse in the cloud on xCloud?

Yes. LiteParse cloud use gives the API a dedicated Cloud VPS with your domain and certificate, usually ready within about a minute. The first conversion of an Office document is slower while LibreOffice initialises. Another host's server is fine when connected as self-managed.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.