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Hi, sorry for the delayed reply. Yes, Spark is not required, and you can use cobol-parser dependency that does not require Spark (still requires Scala dependency as a library).

Here is an example of Cobrix used without Spark to convert some mainframe data to JSON expressed as a unit test:
https://github.com/AbsaOSS/cobrix/blob/master/cobol-converters/src/test/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/cobol/converters/extra/SerializersSpec.scala

One important detail. When Cobrix is used with Spark, it converts binary files to Spark dataframes and uses Spark type model. But when Spark is not used, you can use a custom RecordHandler. An example of such a handler is in the above test suite. It uses Array[Any] (in Java it would be Object[] probably.)

Let me know if you have any more questions on this.

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