firecrawl/pdf-inspector

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16751 stars · 1159 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction that detects whether PDFs are text-based or scanned to enable smart OCR routing. It converts native-text PDFs to clean Markdown with position-aware extraction, table detection, and multi-column layout support, with bindings for Python, Node.js, CLI, and browser WebAssembly.

Use cases

• convert pdfs to markdown
• detect scanned vs text-based pdfs
• extract text from pdf files
• route pdfs to ocr only when needed
• extract tables from pdf documents
• parse multi-column pdf layouts
• run pdf parsing in the browser

When to choose

• you need fast classification and extraction of native-text PDFs without OCR overhead
• you want Markdown output with tables, headings, and reading-order reconstruction
• you need bindings across Rust, Python, Node.js, CLI, and WebAssembly
• you want to skip expensive OCR services for text-based PDFs

When to avoid

• your PDFs are primarily scanned images requiring full-document OCR
• you need model-based PDF parsing or visual layout understanding beyond heuristics
• you need form field extraction or PDF editing/manipulation

Facets

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parser pdf ocr markdown nlp pdf files developer-tools rust python cli wasm browser cross-platform pdf-classification text-extraction ocr-routing pdf-to-markdown scanned-pdf-detection table-detection multi-column-layout firecrawl natural-language-processing nodejs

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