LlamaIndex on October 7, 2026 launched OpenDocRouter, a hosted platform for document-to-markdown parsing that places a set of frontier and open-source models behind a single API, each run under a versioned parsing recipe and benchmarked on ParseBench for quality and cost. LlamaIndex said it built the service to share work it had gotten particularly good at. The announcement points to a crowded field: a HuggingFace search for “ocr” surfaces thousands of models, frontier labs are releasing…