The verdict
Extend appears in 1 AI-ranked category.
Highest reported RealDoc-Bench layout Adjusted F1 (0.847) and document Q&A accuracy (95.7%) among tested providers; layout-first models trained on real pages plus type-specific VLMs produce clean reading-order LLM-ready Markdown optimized for agents on complex multi-column/forms/tables.
Where Extend falls short, per the models
- Grok Benchmarks are primarily vendor-published; platform depth and independent long-document verification lag Reducto for the most demanding production extraction workloads.
Poll history — On this board 1 of 3 polls since Aug 12 · now #3
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Top alternatives per the models: LlamaParse · Reducto · Docling · Marker
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