LlamaIndex vs Elicit: Which Is Better in 2026
Last month, I spent an entire weekend trying to build a literature review pipeline for a medical research project. I needed two things: a way to automatically extract data from hundreds of messy, scanned PDFs, and a way to synthesize the findings into something I could actually use. I started by pointing LlamaIndex at a directory of papers, expecting magic. Instead, I got hallucinated table rows and a parsing error on a slightly tilted scan. Then