Free guide · Oct 13, 2026

MinerU 4: give your AI PDF answers a page and block you can check

How to follow the page and block, check a quote against the original, and choose your parser with the license in mind.

The short version

I use this guide to read page and block locators, verify an extracted citation, and check parsing and license conditions. MinerU4 integrates parsing tiers, a local document library, cached results, search, page/block continuation and stable citation locators. It distinguishes native office parsing from PDF/image quality tiers and explicit remote parsing.

The source documentation was inspected; I have not independently run the proposed test in this guide. These steps help you choose and check a small first experiment before committing a larger workflow. Any successful output needs its own saved result and configuration.

What's in the full guide

  1. 01What you need
  2. 02Start cheaply
  3. 03My small test plan
  4. 04A starter request
  5. 05How I would judge the result
  6. 06Access and terms
  7. 07Primary sources