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Useful Rust library for PDF processing but not core to the reader's focus areas.

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Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions. - firecrawl/pdf-inspector
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Firecrawl released pdf-inspector, a Rust library that classifies PDFs as text-based or scanned in ~10-50ms and extracts structured Markdown with position-aware text, tables, and multi-column layout—all without OCR. It benchmarks at 0.875 overall score on the opendataloader-bench corpus (200 PDFs), outperforming PyMuPDF4LLM and MarkItDown while processing the full corpus in 0.47s on an Apple M4 Pro. The library ships with Python, Node.js, and browser WebAssembly bindings, targeting the ~54% of PDFs that don't require OCR to skip expensive cloud services.

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