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The release of Reader-LM-0.5B and Reader-LM-1.5B by Jina AI represents a significant advancement in small language model (SLM) technology. These models are specifically designed to tackle the challenge of converting raw, noisy HTML from the open web into clean markdown format, a task that presents a multitude of complexities due to the abundance of noise in modern web content such as headers, footers, and sidebars. The objective of the Reader-LM series is to efficiently address these challenges while prioritizing cost-effectiveness and performance. Background and Purpose Jina AI launched Jina Reader in April 2024, an API that transforms any URL into markdown suitable for large language models (LLMs). This API relies on tools like Mozilla’s Readability package for extracting main webpage content followed by regex and the Turndown library for converting cleaned HTML into markdown. However, this approach encountered challenges such as inaccurate content filtering and complexitie...