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PDF to Text, a challenging problem

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357 points ingve | 1 comments | 13 May 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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andrethegiant ◴[13 May 25 16:05 UTC] No.43974436[source]▶
Cloudflare’s ai.toMarkdown() function available in Workers AI can handle PDFs pretty easily. Judging from speed alone, it seems they’re parsing the actual content rather than shoving into OCR/LLM.

Shameless plug: I use this under the hood when you prefix any PDF URL with https://pure.md/ to convert to raw text.

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1. bambax ◴[13 May 25 16:55 UTC] No.43975027[source]▶
It doesn't seem to handle multi-columns PDFs well?